Famous Quotes & Sayings

In the bottle, discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

Jane Porter

If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor.

Klaus Kinski

At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be killed.

George Herbert

The vertue of a coward is suspition.

Glenn Reynolds

If you only stand up for speech you approve of, you're a hack. If you only stand up for speech that everyone approves of, you're a coward.

Hunter S. Thompson

I keep my mouth shut now. I've turned into a professional coward.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.

Ray Lewis

I didn't see it, not at all. Like I said, if you are going to play a football game, don't be a coward and wait until you make one play and do something. Just play football. His celebration doesn't mean anything.

John Fletcher

The coward's weapon, poison.

Patty Hearst

I'm a coward, I didn't want to die.

Plutarch

I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.

Joe Abercrombie

Hard words are for fools and cowards.

John Dryden

All the learn'd are cowards by profession.

John Lahr

Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from the Americans.

Julius Streicher

He who knows the truth and does not speak it is a miserable coward.

Julius Caesar

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never tast of death but once.

Ouida

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards. --"Wanda

Namie Amuro

I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Jodi Picoult

I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live

Lucretia Mott

If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?

Michel de Montaigne

Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.

Markus Zusak

But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?

Markus Zusak

Is there cowardice with the acknowledgement of fear?

Margaret Atwood

I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward.

Marcus Luttrell

Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Moderation is for cowards.

Mark Twain

You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

Kit Carson

The cowards never start and the weak die along the way.

Ray Bradbury

I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you.

Seal

Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

There’s no need in both of us dying tonight. (Kiara) I took an oath to save every life I could. I’m not about to back out on it now. I might be a lot of things, but a coward has never been one of them. (Syn)

Max Beerbohm

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Marjane Satrapi

It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.