Coward Quotes - Page 15

• Currently we breed cowards and snitches. Whored society of sons of whores!

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Son, Snitch

  Blog post, November 04, 2010.

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• I am transparent An open book; There's no choice in the matter But the breath from my mind Is living air, And the notes from my heart Are what I share. Words weren't made for cowards.

  Happy Rhodes

  Book, Heart, Air

  Song: Words Weren't Made for Cowards, Album: Warpaint

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• Despising cowardice in others, I wished to prove myself no coward. Believing in the good, the gentle, the beautiful things of life, I addressed myself to the sweet duty of keeping these attributes for my children's sake and my own. And in striving to provide a living for them, I found a success beyond my wildest dreams.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• If you would learn to speak all tongues and conform to the customs of all nations, if you would travel farther than all travellers, be naturalized in all climes, and cause the Sphinx to dash her head against a stone, even obey the precept of the old philosopher, and Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve. Only the defeated and deserters go to the wars, cowards that run away and enlist.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, War, Eye

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.313, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Together, Ill, Nonviolence

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.97, A&C Black

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• Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Bravery, Emasculation

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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• The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violence, Truth Is, Habit

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• No one step back, that is the idea.... Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the whole world stand against us!.... What of it? Thus fight! You gain nothing by becoming cowards.... Taking a step backward, you do not avoid any misfortune.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Stars, Moving

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.419, Manonmani Publishers

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• Sin makes man a coward; but a life in the Truth of Christ makes Him bold.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Me never believe in marriage that muchmarriage is a trap to control me; woman is a coward. Man strong.

  Bob Marley

  Strong, Believe, Men

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• One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

  Voltaire

  People, Honest, Chiefs

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• My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse.

  Michael Moore

  Uncles, Hero, Taught

  Michael Moore @MMFlint, twitter.com. January 18, 2015.

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• A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.

  John Eldredge

  Suicide, Strong, Wine

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.171, Harper Collins

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• Playing rugby at school I once fell on a loose ball and, through ignorance and fear, held on despite a fierce pummelling. After that it took me months to convince my team-mates I was a coward.

  Peter Cook

  Team, School, Ignorance

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• Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Moving, Hero

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.356, New Directions Publishing

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• He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world.

  Thomas Hughes

  Fear, World, Spirit

  Thomas Hughes, Andrew Sanders (2008). “Tom Brown's Schooldays”, p.228, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

  Francis Bacon

  Dark, Arrows, Crafty

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.515

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• Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle of every man who hath either religion, honour, or prudence. Thosewho violate it, may be cunning, but they are not able. Lies and perfidy are the refuge of fools and cowards.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Truth, Lying, Men

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.298, OUP Oxford

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• To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice.

  David Dudley Field II

  Miserable, Delinquency, Conditions

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• Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hero, Men, Soul

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• This week a group of activists, known as Anonymous, hacked the Twitter account of the KKK. The KKK is furious. They said Anonymous is just a bunch of cowards who don't have the courage to show their faces.

  Conan O'Brien

  Kkk, Faces, Groups

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• The meaning of words had no longer the same relation to things... Reckless daring was held to be loyal courage; prudent delay was the excuse of a coward; moderation was the disguise of unmanly weakness; to know everything was to do nothing. Frantic energy was the true quality of man.

  Thucydides

  Wisdom, Men, Quality

  Thucydides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thucydides (Illustrated)”, p.199, Delphi Classics

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• I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Quitter, Raised

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• Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.

  Thomas Otway

  Boys, Mind, Body

  Lynette Feasey, John Milton, Thomas Otway, William Congreve (1951). “And so to the playhouse”

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• Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Thinking, Waiting

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 242, 1895.

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