Coward Quotes - Page 7

• I must confess that I've never trusted the Web. I've always seen it as a coward's tool. Where does it live? How do you hold it personally responsible? Can you put a distributed network of fiber-optic cable "on notice"? And is it male or female? In other words, can I challenge it to a fight?

  Stephen Colbert

  Responsibility, Fighting, Challenges

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• It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.

  Chinua Achebe

  Men, Thought Provoking, Brave

  Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.11, Heinemann

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• I think good physical conditioning is essential to any occupation. A man who is physically fit performs better at any job. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

  Vince Lombardi

  Leadership, Sports, Jobs

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• An honorable man would never abandon his friend in time of need, especially if they were in a foreign country. Why? For fear of acting like a coward or of being boorish. I repeat, I admire the fact that, those persons have, through human respect, more courage than Christians and priests have, through charity or through their good intentions.

  Vincent de Paul

  Leadership, Christian, Country

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• He who fears fate lives like a coward

  Curtis Jackson

  Fate

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• [I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid or merely because he lacks the instruments of violence, he is not truly nonviolent. This is why Gandhi often said that if cowardice is the only alternative to violence, it is better to fight.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Fighting, Doe, Alternatives

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• the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dog, Moving, Light

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “You Get So Alone at Times”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!

  Horace

  Art, Wine, Glasses

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• Men with discrimination will be viewed as schemers; second, men with deep far-sightedness will be seen as cowards; and third, men with rough behaviour will be mistaken for real warriors. These are great errors.

  Takeda Shingen

  Real, Warrior, Men

  "Ideals of the Samurai: Writings of Japanese Warriors". Book by William Scott Wilson, p. 92, 1982.

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• It's the coward who says, 'This is fate'...It's the strong who stands up & says 'I will make my fate'

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Fate

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• There was no room in God's army for the coward heart, no crown awaiting him who put mother or father, sister or brother, sweetheart or friend above God's will. Let the church cry amen to this!

  James A. Baldwin

  Mother, Brother, Father

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• I run; I am a coward at heart. I swear, when I smell violence or aggression the coward comes out in me. I have no desire to fight anybody except myself.

  Rutger Hauer

  Running, Heart, Fighting

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• A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

  William Hazlitt

  Silly, Men, Two

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• The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse than raging fire, while the man who stands apart is called a coward.

  Euripides

  Running, Men, Fire

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts”

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• Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.

  Billy Childish

  Art, Hero, Challenging Work

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• My philosophy is as simple as ever - smoking, drinking, moderate sexual intercourse on a diminishing scale, reading and writing (not arithmetic). I have a selfish absorption in the well-being and achievement of Noel Coward.

  Noel Coward

  Philosophy, Selfish, Drinking

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• I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.

  Cai Guo-Qiang

  Children, Brave, Facts

  "Cai Guo-Qiang: Exploding expectations" by Dean Irvine, www.cnn.com. July 27, 2008.

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• Brave men die a single death; cowards marry fish-head mermaids!

  Mario

  Men, Brave, Mermaid

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• Each man must not think only of himself, but also of his buddy fighting beside him. We don't want yellow cowards in this Army. They should be killed off like rats. If not, they will go home after this war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed more brave men. Kill off the Goddamned cowards and we will have a nation of brave men.

  George S. Patton

  War, Home, Army

  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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• Life's not about security. It's about picking up the pieces after it's all over and carrying on. We can choose to be cowards who fear letting someone inside us, and do that alone. Or we can choose to be brave and let someone stand by our side and help us.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Brave, Pieces, Carrying On

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• Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Commodity, Holy

  Harlan Ellison (1972). “Dangerous Visions”, Berkley

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• Peter: Where are you two going? Tris: Why aren't you with your attack group eating dinner? Peter: I don't have one. I'm injured. Christina: Yeah right, you are! Peter: Well, I don't want to go to battle with a bunch of factionless. So I'm going to stay here. Christina: Like a coward. Let everyone else clean up the mess for you. Peter: Yep! Have fun dying.

  Veronica Roth

  Fun, Two, Dying

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• There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.

  Brian Jacques

  Brave, World, Littles

  Brian Jacques (2002). “Mossflower: A Tale from Redwall”, p.23, Penguin

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• Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Bully, Cowardice, Found

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.189, Tara Publishing

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• Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Dark, Army, Decision

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