Coward Quotes - Page 20

• Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Proof, Greater

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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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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• And yet, something inside you is so horrible or you're such a coward or whatever the reason that you decide that you have to end it. Robin Williams, at 63, did that today.

  Shepard Smith

  Robins, Today, Reason

  "Fox News' Shepard Smith Apologizes For Comments About Robin Williams' Suicide" by David Edwards, www.businessinsider.com. August 12, 2014.

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• The coward, afraid of the lash, with one hand wipes his eyes and gives with the other. Of what avail are such gifts?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Eye, Hands, Giving

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1875, Manonmani Publishers

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• This world is not for cowards.

  Swami Vivekananda

  World, Cowardice, This World

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Work and Its Secret”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• To cowards what advice shall I offer? - nothing whatsoever have I to say.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Advice, Cowardice, Offers

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3943, Manonmani Publishers

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• We are all born cowards.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Cowardice, Born

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1424, Manonmani Publishers

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• We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Like Love, Trying, Weakness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2382, Manonmani Publishers

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• You gain nothing by becoming cowards.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Gains, Becoming, Cowardice

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

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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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• So when I say we had been the cowards, yes, that's what I meant, we as a society. And that's everybody, including myself. I had been screaming about the drug war and this war and other wars. I should have been more on terrorism, too. So should you, so should everybody.

  Bill Maher

  War, Should Have, Drug

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• When I went to jail, reality hit so hard that it took my breath away, took my stance away, took my strength away. I was there buck naked, humiliated, sitting in my own crap and urine - this is a metaphor. My ego had run off. Your ego is the biggest coward.

  Tim Allen

  Running, Reality, Jail

  “Tim Allen: What I've Learned” by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 11, 2011.

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