Cowardly Quotes - Page 10

• If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers.

  Albert Camus

  Brother, Blessing, Hands

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.231, Vintage

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• No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.

  Plato

  Inspire, Heroism

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.656, Modern Library

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• Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

  Jean Paul

  Men, Literature, Firsts

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• A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

  Pele

  Inspirational, Soccer, Winning

  Quoted in Peter Ball and Phil ShawThe Book of Football Quotations (1989).

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• I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that.

  Shakira

  Art, Clothes, Cameras

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Since the advent of the Internet - more recently compounded by blogging - everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger-monger can have an audience of thousands. That doesn't make them a journalist any more than my throwing an onion and a few carrots into a pot of boiling water makes me Julia Child.

  Lynda Resnick

  Children, Voice, Water

  "Finding the Voice of Truth Amid the Noise of Old and New Media" by Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2009.

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• There's no such thing as being cowardly in a fight. ~Edward Elric

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Fighting, Alchemist

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• It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.

  Edgar Degas

  Battle, Details, Lines

  Robert Hale Ives Gammell, Edgar Degas (1961). “The shop-talk of Edgar Degas”

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• I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

  Christopher Lasch

  Sake, Despise, Clinging

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• Mohammed knew that most people are terribly cowardly and stupid. That is why he promised two beautiful women to every courageous warrior who dies in battle. This is the kind of language a soldier understands. When he believes that he will be welcomed in this manner in the afterlife, he will be willing to give his life, he will be enthusiastic about going to battle and not fear death. You may call this primitive and you may laugh about it, but it is based on deeper wisdom. A religion must speak a man's language.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Beautiful, Stupid, Believe

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• The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

  Bill Klem

  Team, Mistake, Umpires

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• To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

  Jeremy Collier

  Believe, Imagination, Way

  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.30

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• No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Credit, Gains

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.321, Harvard University Press

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• A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them to carry the burden of life, to work for others, and to put their shoulders to the wheel of social life, is a coward who hides himself when the battle is on, and goes to sleep drunk on an opiate.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Brother, Sleep, Burdens Of Life

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• It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves. It is a malady caused by the humid climate.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Suicide, War, Climate

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• A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Care, May

  "Napoleon in Review". Book by George Gordon Andrews, 1939.

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• Casting a spell, in self-defense or in self-interest is not selfish, but positive, life-affirming. You have been given powers, the very same powers that society devalues... What if it comes back tenfold? Well, don't be a fool. Never use your magick to attack the innocent. Then you have nothing to fear... Don't be frivolous or cowardly. If your course is righteous, and your tools ready, go to it.

  Zsuzsanna Budapest

  Selfish, Positive Life, What If

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• The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to collectivists, to people who believe that wealth is best obtained by redistribution, and that message is clear and concise . . . Egalitarianism is sinful; it's also cowardly.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Believe, Egalitarianism, People

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• [S]ervants of darkness had no lasting joy in their service. In all of them the will for darkness was a perversion of the will for the light. In all but a few maniacs the satisfaction of the will for darkness was at all times countered by a revulsion which the unhappy spirit either dared not confess even to itself, or else rejected as cowardly and evil.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Light, Evil, Joy

  Olaf Stapledon (1974). “Darkness and the light”, Hyperion Pr

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• In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that he may grant to us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that he may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger.

  Adolf Hitler

  Pride, Past, Blessing

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939”

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• The world is not for cowardly peoples.

  Adolf Hitler

  World

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• There are times when to be reasonable is to be cowardly.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Reason, Reasonable

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• It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.

  Epictetus

  Giving, Wicked, Charity

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.426

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• Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it.

  Mary McCarthy

  Action, Reason, Cowardice

  Mary McCarthy (2017). “Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979”, p.409, Library of America

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• Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents. Thanks to the bottle's prompting no one is lost for words, no one who's cramped by poverty fails to find release.

  Horace

  Heart, Wine, Thinking

  Horace, Persius (2005). “The Satires of Horace and Persius”, p.143, Penguin UK

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