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• I touch my scar to remind myself that I am not a coward. I am a Quinn.

  Delores Phillips

  Scar, Quinn

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• Obedience is the greatest refuge of the weak and the coward people!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  People, Obedience, Weak

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• In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it; for no species of falsehood is more frequent than flattery, to which the coward is betrayed by fear, the dependent by interest, and the friend by tenderness: those who are neither servile nor timorous are yet desirous to bestow pleasure; and, while unjust demands of praise continue to be made, there will always be some whom hope, fear, or kindness will dispose to pay them.

  Samuel Johnson

  Kindness, Men, Order

  Samuel Johnson (1797). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, Etc. (A New Edition, Being the Ninth.).”, p.101

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• For there is one thing we must never forget... the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards.

  Adolf Hitler

  Wise, Military, Men

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out the worst. When the ablest men turn into cowards, the average men turn into brutes.

  Ayn Rand

  Character, Thug, Men

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.46, Penguin

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• The history of God's people is not a record of God searching for courageous men and women who could handle the task, but God transforming the hearts of cowards and calling them to live courageous lives.

  Erwin McManus

  Heart, Men, People

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul”, p.89, Thomas Nelson

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• I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me.

  Kevin Garnett

  Giving Up, Type, Rough

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• Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Teacher, Offering

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.98, A&C Black

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• An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.

  Herman Melville

  Happiness, Success, Fear

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.126, Velvet Element Books

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• Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Mean, Boys, Laughing

  Zora Neale Hurston (2002). “Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters”, Doubleday Books

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• A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Doe, Members

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.33, New Directions Publishing

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• God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Made, Certain, Manifest

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• Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mean, Men, Hearted

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• Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery.

  Jeff Cooper

  Men, Honor, May

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.9, Paladin Press

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• Lack of conditioning will make a coward of us all.

  Dominick Cruz

  Mma, Conditioning

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• These internet trolls are cowards who are poisoning our national life. No-one would permit such venom in person, so there should be no place for it on social media.

  Chris Grayling

  Media, Troll, Internet

  "Crackdown on the cyber-mobs poisoning Britain: Sentence for web trolls to be quadrupled to two years after shocking high-profile online abuse cases" By Glen Owen, www.dailymail.co.uk. October 18, 2014.

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• Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.

  Seal

  Survivor, Navy Seal, Moderation

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• A moral coward is one who is afraid to do what he thinks is right because others will disapprove or laugh. Remember that all men have their fears, but those who face their fears with dignity have courage as well.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Courage, Men, Thinking

  Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

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• Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise.

  Murong Xuecun

  Safe, Criticise

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• Heroes and cowards feel the same fear and action creates opportunities.

  Garrison Wynn

  Hero, Opportunity, Action

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• Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Character, Order, Political

  Whitney v. California (concurring opinion) (1927) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 29

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• The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom't were gross flattery to name a coward.

  John M. Tobin, Jr.

  Kindness, Women, Hands

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• Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Freedom, Hands, Feelings

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.174, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The person who is right is the person who is the strongest, in this case, paradoxically, it's the cowards who are the brave ones, and they manage to impose their ideas on everyone else.

  Paulo Coelho

  Ideas, Brave, Cases

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• I must speak the truth, even at the risk of being ostracized by my fellow scribblers. In fact, anticipating their rage, I have already applied for a place in the Canada Council's witness-protection program. This because, much as it pains me to turn on my kind, I fear the time has come to admit that far too many celebrated writers were outrageous liars, philanderers, drunks, druggies, unsuitable babysitters, plagiarists, psychopaths, parasites, cowards, indifferent dads or moms and bad credit risks.

  Mordecai Richler

  Mom, Pain, Dad

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