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To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice. — David Dudley Field II

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion. — David Gemmell

For the cowards, all doors are locked; for the daring, all doors are open! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot you in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders are worse. — Michael Moore

The more coward you are, the bigger your castle is! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe. — Bertrand Russell

But focus always on your shame, and your shame will eat you. It will become you. That is the coward's way. A coward never has to learn. — Marjorie M. Liu

It is the hero alone, not the coward, who has liberation within his easy reach. — Swami Vivekananda

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it. — Pat Conroy

Any coward can instill fear. It's easy to scare people, but having the strength to make them feel safe? Now that's power. — Nick Shamhart

You're the coward, Caleb. Im not afraid to tell you how I feel. I'm not afraid to admit, that despite everything you've done to me, I love you. — C.J. Roberts

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Courage is not what it took to survive. Quite the opposite! You had to be a coward to survive. — Aminatta Forna

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood. — Aaron Hill

I'm a hero wid coward's legs, I'm a hero from the waist up. — Spike Milligan

The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask. — Criss Jami

Anyone who hides within the crowd is a coward. — Jim Goad

The Hawk's keen nose is picking up the scent of a COWARD! Right . . . about . . . HERE! he snarled, and pointed at ME! — Rachel Renee Russell

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The coward turned and walked into the kitchen as if he hadn't seen me getting frogmarched by the estrogen squad. — Molly Harper

The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble. — James F. Cooper

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

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

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth. — Noel Coward

The hero and the coward both feel exactly the same fear, only the hero confronts his fear and converts it into fire. — Cus D'Amato

Exercise is the most awful illusion. The secret is a lot of aspirin and marrons glaces. — Noel Coward

He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world; — Thomas Hughes

Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. It takes courage to hold on to happiness. — Novala Takemoto

I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me. — Kevin Garnett

Logic is the last refuge of a coward. — Clive Barker

No coward can be the friend of the truth! Cowards have always been the friends of lies! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The most coward person is the one who uses religion to win an argument. — Asma Naqi

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

The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor — Margaret Mitchell

I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark. — Aung San Suu Kyi

In any event, it's done, said Papa-which are the words of a coward to the power of ten. — Muriel Barbery

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger. — Andrew Jackson

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward. — Dolores Ibarruri

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

No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself ... — Swami Vivekananda

The cowards never start and the weak die along the way. — Kit Carson

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. — Horace Smith

The coward is an object to be pitied. — Swami Vivekananda

There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud. — Ian McKellen

Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it. — Vanna Bonta

Zwounds, ye fat paunch, an ye call me a coward, by the Lord, I'll stab thee. — William Shakespeare

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly. — Voltaire

Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward. — Orlando Figes

Anyone who deliberately makes someone else feel less, feel helpless? That person is a coward. They're the weak ones, the shameful ones. What — J.D. Robb

The opposite of a coward is one who knows and does the right thing at the right time even if it may cost them their own life. — Joseph Skinner

Gun is the instrument of the coward and the weak! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Is the goal I've set been determined by a desire to avoid the goal I should have set? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does ... — Miles Franklin

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. — George Bernard Shaw

The vertue of a coward is suspition. — George Herbert

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

He wondered what a coward did in his position and if it was the same thing he was doing now. — Claire Zorn

The pleasures that once were heaven look silly at sixty-seven. — Noel Coward

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined? — C.S. Lewis

Blame is the cowards way out. — Elvin Hayes

The courageous attitudes of leaders ramble around coward followers and sooner or later, they become courageous too! — Israelmore Ayivor

To know what is right and choose to ignore it is the act of a coward. — Masashi Kishimoto

One more thing: Philippe, you are not a coward-so what I want to hear from you is the ecstatic truth about the twin towers. — Werner Herzog

I'm over-educated in the things I shouldn't have known at all. — Noel Coward

The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards. — Thomas Guthrie

Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto. — Ozzy Osbourne

A boy has other people do the talking for him; a man speaks his mind. — Shannon L. Alder

If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder. — H.L. Mencken

I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test. — Samuel West

Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure. — Rabindranath Tagore

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward. — Aristotle.

The Holy Spirit can cast out the evil spirit of the fear of man. He can make the coward brave. — Charles Spurgeon

Among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all — Tracy Kidder

A coward dies every day,
the courageous dies only once. — Anonymous

Soften, to connect with your heart and engender a basic attitude of generosity and compassion toward yourself, the archetypal coward. — Pema Chodron

A coward may have the legs of a cheetah, but time has the legs of lightning. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Frighted Jonah trembles, and summoning all his boldness to his face, only looks so much the more a coward. — Herman Melville

If you listen to only one side of the story, you are simply a coward. — Ben Tolosa

They're so brave," she said.
"They're all dead."
"Only a coward would think of that," she said scornfully. — Orson Scott Card

I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere. — Noel Coward

Part of the art of survival as a coward is not letting things get to the point where that cowardice is exposed. — Mark Lawrence

All men would be cowards if they only had the courage. — Johnny Depp

You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself — Swami Vivekananda

Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent. — Ayn Rand

The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything. — John Irving

The coward only threatens when he is safe. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Son, hiding the truth is just the coward's way to lie. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Bed is the perfect climate. — Noel Coward

The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward. — Aristotle.

Coward is the most misused word in our society. — Doug Stanhope

I was a moral coward, and he was not losing his life and desires through fear - which the majority of us do. — Theodore Dreiser

I am not brave enough to be a coward," she said. "I see the consequences too clearly — Ayn Rand

Courage can come fro many places, and be made of many things, and yesterday's coward can become tomorrow's hero in an instant if the time is right. — Joe Abercrombie

I'm a coward, I close my eyes. I don't understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off. — Christopher Pike

Even those who lose the battle are not cowards - if they have fought. — Louise Closser Hale

I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage. — Noel Coward

We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we? — Noel Coward

I would often be a coward, but for the shame of it. — Ralph Connor