You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others. — Henry Rollins
Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare. — Queen's Mother Elizabeth
Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare. — Queen Elizabeth II
One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts. — C. S. Lewis
How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice? — Michael Herr
Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save. — John Gay
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. — Thomas Jefferson
Coward And Courage Quotes
Someone should advise women to stop fantasizing about courageous firefighters and heroic uniformed soldiers. There is a new sheriff in town who epitomizes a progressive definition of masculinity: Apathetic Cowardly Bystander Man. — Gad Saad
The history of God's people is not a record of God searching for courageous men and women who could handle the task, but God transforming the hearts of cowards and calling them to live courageous lives. — Erwin McManus
To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity. — Bill Maher
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.
As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the sea, that men of courage must starve. — Anne Bonny
The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance. — Stanley Milgram
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. — George Eliot
Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity.
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
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. — Jean Paul
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company. — Ben Horowitz
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. — Jean Paul Richter
Being A Coward Quotes
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. — John Calvin
It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army. — Joseph Stalin
I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want. — Bobby Fischer
There are seven days in the week and someday isn't one of them.
I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets. — Eugene V. Debs
Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended. — George W. Bush
The law of honor: Go along only on the paths of honor. Fight, and never be a coward. Leave the path of infamy to others. Better to fall in an honorable fight than win by infamy. — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
Speak with honesty, think with sincerity, act with integrity.
Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey. — Anna Julia Cooper
This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such. — Charles Krauthammer
Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women. — Mahatma Gandhi
Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard
Some do it with a bitter look
Some with a flattering word
The coward does it with a kiss
The brave man with a sword — Oscar Wilde
Courage And Cowardice Quotes
The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution. — J. Oswald Sanders
Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it. — Erica Jong
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Statesmen exhibit five key commitments: 1) A commitment to principles above politics; 2) An ability to compromise without abandoning principle; 3) A commitment to truth over spin; 4) A commitment to courage over cowardice; and 5) A commitment, or willingness, to give up power. — Tom Coburn
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough. — Thomas Fuller
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. — Thomas Fuller
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion. — Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle. — Mahatma Gandhi
Acts Of Courage Quotes
Do the right thing because it is right. — Immanuel Kant
Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause--the cause of liberation. — Paulo Freire
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. — Albert Einstein
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all. — Dorothy Day
Summoning up the courage to take action is always the same regardless of how seemingly big or small the challenge. What may look like a small act of courage is courage nonetheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward. — Nichiren
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. — Charles Kettering
Carry out a randon act of kindness, with no expectations of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward. — Daisaku Ikeda
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. — Robert Kennedy
It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively--which means to live authentically--is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding--from others and also from themselves. — Nathaniel Branden
The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are - without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are. — Debbie Ford
I believe in Christian charity, but I don't believe in Christian tolerance... When we become so tolerate that we lead people into mental fog and spiritual darkness, we are not acting like Christians; we are acting like cowards! — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing cowards by a whip-cracking trainer, is primitive and medieval. It stems from the old idea that we are superior to other species and have the right to hold dominion over them. — Desmond Morris
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Once again, the hopeless cowardly Americans were back to repeat their cowardly act hiding behind a technological advance that God, most gracious, wanted it to be their curse and cause for shame. — Saddam Hussein
Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right. — Mahatma Gandhi
A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will. — Thomas Nagel
Dream Big. Start small. Act now.
The Spirit's fullness is not the reward of our faithfulness, but God's gift for our defeat. He was not given to the disciples in Acts 28 as the culmination and reward of their wonderful service, but in Acts 2 when they had proved themselves cowards, meeting behind closed doors. — Roy Hession
If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt. — Jim Butcher
Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel. — Thomas Otway
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
Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong. — Doc Hastings
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. — Henry Miller
To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act. — Mahatma Gandhi
As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly acts. — Tom Daschle
Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage? — William Shakespeare
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. — Henry Miller
I am delighted to be part of this Women's Aid campaign - the statistics are frightening. I've spent time with the victims of these cowardly acts, and it's heartbreaking. Everyday women and children are being abused in their own homes. I am standing up and saying that I am a Real Man, and that violence against women and children has to end. — Gethin Jones
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
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
It is the act of a coward to wish for death. — Ovid
Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions." — Coventry Patmore
To know what is right and choose to ignore it is the act of a coward. — Masashi Kishimoto
I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do. — John Christopher
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