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Coward Quotes

"To see the right and not to do it is cowardice."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Coward, Cowardice, Right

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"Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live."

Charles Caleb Colton, English Writer

Coward, Cowardice, Suicide

"Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed."

Margaret Mitchell, American Novelist

Coward, Cowards, Fighting, Fool, Heroes

"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Coward, Cowardice

"Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice."

Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

Coward, Cowardice, Lies, Valor

"Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural."

Theophrastus, Greek Philosopher

Coward, Cowardice, Supernatural

"The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places."

Bryant H. McGill, American Poet

Coward, Cowards, Fools, World

"We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason."

Philip Kearny, American Soldier

Coward, Cowardice, Enemy, Order, Treason

"The prayers of cowards fortune spurns."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Coward, Cowards, Fortune

"The world has no room for cowards."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Coward, Cowards, World

"There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice."

Kurt Huber, German Celebrity

Coward, Cowardice, Justice, Law

"When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Coward, Cowardice, Fashion, Followers

"I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards."

Richard Cobden, British Businessman

Coward, Compliments, Cowards, English, Name

"Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers."

Swami Sivananda, Indian Philosopher

Coward, Cowardice, Humility, Spiritual, Weakness

"Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice."

Randall Terry, American Celebrity

Coward, Cowardice

"Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards."

Jean Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

Coward, Cowards, Heroes

"Fatigue makes cowards of us all."

Vince Lombardi, American Coach

Coward, Cowards, Fatigue

"This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it."

Elmer Davis, American Journalist

Coward, Cowards, Will

"Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice."

Holbrook Jackson, English Writer

Coward, Cowardice, Limits, Patience

"True valor lies between cowardice and rashness."

Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

Coward, Cowardice, Lies, Valor

"I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us."

Dorothy Dix, American Journalist

Coward, Cowards, Day, Future, Tomorrow

"All enchantments die; only cowards die with them."

Charles Morgan, British Novelist

Coward, Cowards

"Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense."

Mignon McLaughlin, American Journalist

Coward, Cowards, Hardship, Suspense

"Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice."

George Jackson, American Activist

Coward, Cowardice, Limits, Patience

"Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice."

Adolf Hitler, German Criminal

Coward, Cowardice, Expression, Stupidity

"The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face. They are cowards."

Christopher Monckton, British Politician

Coward, Cowards, Democrats, Want

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