Coward Quotes - Page 19

• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Ignorance, Brave

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

  Aristotle

  Courage, Men, Brave

  Aristotle, John Burnet (1967). “Aristotle on Education: Extracts from the Ethics and Politics”, p.63, CUP Archive

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• The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Sarcastic, Children, Food

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• Love is no assignment for cowards.

  Ovid

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Teamwork, Dynasty

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• My practise as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world. And I should be a coward if I did not state my theoretical views in public.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Success, Angel, Views

  Preface to "Fact and Faith", 1934.

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• I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried, But that was fiction, Some coward got the story twisted, Like I no longer existed, Mysteriously missin', I'm known worldwide baby, I ain't hard to find.

  Tupac Shakur

  Baby, Rapper, Blood

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• The day for the Negro man being a coward is over.

  James Meredith

  Men, Civil Rights

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• No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Military, People, Police

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.401, Tara Publishing

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• The man who has a certain religious belief and fears to discuss it, lest it may be proved wrong, is not loyal to his belief, he has but a coward's faithfulness to his prejudices. If he were a lover of truth, he would be willing at any moment to surrender his belief for a higher, better, and truer faith.

  William George Jordan

  Religious, Men, Prejudice

  William George Jordan (1903). “Great truths”

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• If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. He's a jerk at the beginning and nice at the end, or a coward at the beginning and brave at the end. If the character doesn't change, the story hasn't happened yet. And if story is derived from real life, if story is just condensed version of life then life itself may be designed to change us so that we evolve from one kind of person to another.

  Donald Miller

  Real, Nice, Character

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.68, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Do not be angry with people who are weak. That is the mark of a coward. There are plenty of things to be angry about in the world--people wielding political or religious authority who have been blinded by money, for example! That is the kind of evil young people should direct their rage at. Be angry about that, and you'll never lose your temper about trifling matters.

  Josei Toda

  Religious, People, Evil

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• Everybody has fear. The difference is that the coward does not control fear and the brave... gets over it.

  Rickson Gracie

  Art, Differences, Brave

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• Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. It takes courage to hold on to happiness.

  Novala Takemoto

  Faces, Humans

  "Fictional character: Momoko Ryugasaki". "Kamikaze Girls", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Dreaming the dream of God is not for Cowards.

  Joey Johnson

  Dream

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• There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.

  James Lipton

  Men, Brian, One Man

  "Fictional Character: Warden Stefan Gentles". Arrested Development, www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• If you are courageous, listen to the heart. If you are a coward, listen to the head.

  Rajneesh

  Heart, School, Courageous

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• Sooner or later we all must die. Warriors choose to do so on their feet, standing between their enemies and those they hold dear. With a weapon in their hands. Cowards choose to do so on their bellies. Unarmed.

  David Gell

  Warrior, Gun, Hands

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• If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks straight up to the cause of his fear and is not deterred from doing that which is good -- which ultimately means for the sake of God, and therefore not from ambition or from fear of being taken for a coward -- this man, and he alone, is truly brave.

  Josef Pieper

  Fall, Taken, Ambition

  Josef Pieper (1966). “The four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• I'm not brave enough to be a coward; I see the consequences too clearly.

  Ayn Rand

  Brave, Enough, Consequence

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• To risk reputation and affection for the truth's sake is so demanding that to do it constantly you will need a degree of moral principle that only the Spirit of God can work in you. Do not turn your back like a coward, but play the man. Follow boldly in your Master's steps, for He has made this rough journey before you. Better a brief warfare and eternal rest than false peace and everlasting torment.

  Alistair Begg

  Journey, Men, Play

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• O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!

  William Shakespeare

  Conscience

  'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 3, l. 178

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• Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast of thought

  William Shakespeare

  Doe, Hue, Hamlet And Ophelia

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• Lord God, let us never hesitate or play the coward, let us never forget the duty which we have taken upon us.... We are all proud that through God's powerful aid we have become once more true Germans.

  Adolf Hitler

  Powerful, Taken, Play

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939”

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• Shoot the brave officers, and the cowards will run away and take the men with them.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Running, Men, Brave

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