Coward Quotes - Page 29

• Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hero, Made

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1705, Manonmani Publishers

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• Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does.

  Miles Franklin

  Bible, People, Doe

  Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Courage, Men, Pits

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.64, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave,
  And only cowards dare affront a woman.

  George Farquhar

  Sex, Women, Brave

  George Farquhar (1759). “The Constant Couple, Or, a Trip to the Jubilee: A Comedy, as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal at Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants”, p.65

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• To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.

  Rollo May

  Lazy, Blocked, Persons

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.169, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Hardness, Hardiness

  William Shakespeare (1771). “The plays of Shakespeare, from the text of S. Johnson, with the prefaces, notes &c. of Rowe, Pope and many other critics. 6 vols. [in 12 pt. Followed by] Shakespeare's poems”, p.195

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• You're a coward if you don't stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.

  Bjork

  Ifs

  "The Invisible Woman: A Conversation With Bjork". Interview with Jessica Hopper, pitchfork.com. January 21, 2015.

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• Humanity from the first has had its vultures and sharks, and representatives of the fraternity who prey upon mankind may be expected no less in America than elsewhere. That this virulence breaks out most readily and commonly against colored persons in this country, is due of course to the fact that they are, generally speaking, weak and can be imposed upon with impunity. Bullies are always cowards at heart.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Country, Heart, Sharks

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.93, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Better it were not to live than to live a coward.

  Walter Raleigh

  Cowardice

  Sir Walter Raleigh, William Oldys, Thomas Birch (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The life of Sir Walter Ralegh, by William Oldys. The life of Sir Walter Ralegh, by Tho. Birch”, p.360

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• In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mistake, Suffering, Looks

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• We may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of the knight-errant in him; Sir George Etherege was unconsciously the Fopling Flutter of his own satire; Goldsmith was the same hero to chambermaids, and coward to ladies that he has immortalized in his charming comedy; and the antiquarian frivolities of Jonathan Oldbuck had their resemblance in Jonathan Oldbuck's creator.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Hero, Humorous, Knights

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• I am a man of peace, God knows how I love peace; but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Peace, Mistake, Men

  Lajos Kossuth (1852). “Kossuth in New England: A Full Account of the Hungarian Governor's Visit to Massachusetts ; with Speeches, and the Addresses that Were Made to Him ...”, p.46

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• A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Liars, Lying, Men

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• Lying is a disgraceful vice, and one that Plutarch paints in most disgraceful colors, when he says that it is "affording testimony that one first despises God, and then fears men." It is not possible more happily to describe its horrible, disgusting, and abandoned nature; for can we imagine anything more vile than to be cowards with regard to men, and brave with regard to God.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Men, Color

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• A coward's courage is in his tongue.

  Edmund Burke

  Tongue, Cowardice

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• Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. If one colony member devotes its life to service over marriage, the individual is of benefit to the society, even though it does not have personal offspring. A soldier going into battle will benefit his country, but he runs a higher risk of death than one who does not. An altruist benefits the group, but a layabout or coward who saves his own energy and reduces his bodily risk passes the resulting social cost to others.

  E. O. Wilson

  Running, Country, Soldier

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• Cowards' weapons neither cut nor pierce.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Cutting, Weapons, Pierce

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• The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Frugal, Cautious, Misers

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.47

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• It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are notnecessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.

  Sallust

  War, Hands, May

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• The only cowards are sinners; fighting the fight is all.

  John Neihardt

  Fighting, Sinner

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• A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.

  Seneca the Younger

  Thrifty, Cautious, Misers

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• Every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching
  men fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.

  George S. Patton

  Real, Liars, Hero

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Depression, Patience, Mind

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• Man must be able to think freely and he must be able to express his thoughts freely! He who is against this is not only fascist and primitive but at the same time is a very great coward also! Only the brave and the honourable men are never afraid of freedom of thought and freedom of expression of ideas! Just like the cockroaches do not like the light, evil minds also do not like the freedom of thoughts!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Freedom, Men, Thinking

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• When the facts of history are written Haile Selassie of Abyssinia will go down as a great coward who ran away from his country to save his skin and left the millions of his countrymen to
  struggle through a terrible war that he brought upon them because of his political ignorance and his racial disloyalty.

  Marcus Garvey

  Country, War, Struggle

  Marcus Garvey (1991). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers”, p.739, Univ of California Press

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