Cowardly Quotes

222 quotes by 195 authors

I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I… — Conrad Black
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know. — Napoleon Bonaparte
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive… — Jean de la Bruyere
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. — Robert Burns
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. — Thomas Carlyle
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly,… — George Stillman Hillard
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in… — Oswald Chambers
I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances. — Thomas Jefferson
I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the marrow. We have… — Adolf Hitler
The honey is guarded by bees.. The rose has thorns.. To enjoy the sweet & beautiful you can NOT be cowardly. — Joseph Simmons
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. — Ignazio Silone
To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because… — Oscar Wilde
To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart. — Ludovico Ariosto
There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always… — James T. Rapier
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
If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we would not find… — Hassan Nasrallah
Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly. — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
Self-confidence is very important. If you don't think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for… — Magnus Carlsen

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