Coward Quotes
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
Laurence Sterne
Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.
Glenn Beck
Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
Alfred Hitchcock
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
Sallust
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. Patton
I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.
Robert Capa
Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.
David Seabury
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
Mickey Mantle
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
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
Jose Bergamin
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan Poe
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Voltaire
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco
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.
Pearl S. Buck
Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
George W. Bush
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Oliver Goldsmith