Best Cowardly Sayings

222 Cowardly quotes by 188 unique authors

There is a prayer intended to give strength to people faced with circumstances they don’t want to accept. The power of the prayer comes from… — Mary Alice
In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be… — Stanley Fish
This avoidance of the difficult things of Scripture — of sinfulness and hell and God’s notable severity — is idolatrous and cowardly. If a man… — Matt Chandler
Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist! — Charles Studd
If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom. — Cyril Connolly
Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It teaches peasants to use tractors, gives lyrics to young soldiers, designs textiles for factory women's dresses, writes… — Azar Nafisi
There are times when it is more courageous to be cowardly. — Norman Reilly Raine
I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It's to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters. — Louis L'Amour
In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the… — Ayn Rand
Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are… — Hunter S. Thompson
Both gentleness and meekness are born of power, not weakness. There is a pseudo-gentlene ss that is effeminate, and there is a pseudo-meekness that is… — Jerry Bridges
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,… — Anne Bonny
In the Great War, there is no room for the faint-hearted, the cowardly. A criminal or an anarchist will be better conditioned than a bourgeois,… — Miguel Serrano
Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence . — Timothy Keller
There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself;… — Lafcadio Hearn
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… — Ben Horowitz
Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment. — Richard M. Nixon
I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to… — Mahatma Gandhi
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… — Mahatma Gandhi
Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How could she not… — Sherman Alexie
You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist. — Studs Terkel
America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them. — James A. Michener
To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act. — Mahatma Gandhi
Don't play it safe. Resist the seductions of the cowardly values our society has come to prize so highly: comfort, convenience, security, predictability, control. These,… — William Deresiewicz

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