Coward Quotes - Page 5

• We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Liars, Hero, Character

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• Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Life, Courage, Queens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

  Jean Paul

  Life, Courage, Time

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• It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

  Voltaire

  Bravery, Vain, Defying

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• You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Mother, Daughter, Children

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• We want to tell him [Blair] that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Battle

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• Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.

  Brooke Westcott

  Inspirational, Leadership, Courage

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• Blame is the cowards way out.

  Elvin Hayes

  Sports, Psychology, Way

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• He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Luck, Tolls, Worst

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2877, Simon and Schuster

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• Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.

  Euripides

  Battle, Cowardice

  "Meleager". Play by Euripides, 418 BCE.

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• A coward judges all he sees by what he is.

  Stephen King

  Judging, Dark Tower, Dark Tower Series

  Stephen King (2017). “The Dark Tower Boxed Set”, p.2955, Simon and Schuster

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• Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Bullying, Heart, Safety

  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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• Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

  Hosea Ballou

  Revenge, Hate, Self

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• Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

  George Eliot

  Fighting, Winning, Battle

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.27

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• Let people hide in their homes, caged like chickens. Cowards deserve no better.

  Peter V. Brett

  Home, People, Chickens

  Peter V. Brett (2015). “The Demon Cycle 3-Book Bundle: The Warded Man, The Desert Spear, The Daylight War”, p.508, Del Rey

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• Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Lying, Safety, Strange

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• All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.

  George S. Patton

  Military, Fighting, Men

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• A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

  Euripides

  Courage, Men, Choices

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

  George W. Bush

  Morning, September 11, Liberty

  9/11 Remarks at Barksdale Air Force Base, delivered 11 September, 2001, Barksdale, Louisiana

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• To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Silence, Should

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• When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.

  Brennan Manning

  Christian, Community, Obedience

  Brennan Manning (2010). “The Wisdom of Tenderness: What happens when God's firece mercy transforms our lives”, p.88, Zondervan

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• Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Religious, Heart

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1902, Manonmani Publishers

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• An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

  Chief Joseph

  Men, Bravery, Despise

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• The world has no room for cowards.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Courage, World, Rooms

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (1905). “Works”

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• This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Courage, Trying, Looks

  Swami Vivekananda “Life changing quotes By Swami Vivekananda”, Bhagyesh

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