Quotes of: Cowardly Keyword

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Jean Paul

If you are strong, and you are fighting the weak for any period of time, you are going to become weak yourself. If you behave like a coward, then you are going to become cowardly - it's only a question of time.

Martin Van Creveld

Cowardly Lion: [noticing the snow that fallen on the poppy field] Unusual weather we're having, ain't it?

The Wizard of Oz

Perserverance: Outlasting the most rash, pessimistic, cowardly naysayers; those first in line to deny us the dreams never tried. Ourselves.

Life

The assholes are always puzzled when the order of the universe is restored, when they are held accountable for their cowardly, pretentious, loveless ways.

Love

a soul in a state of grace need fear nothing from devils, for they are so cowardly that they feel from the gaze of a child

Life

Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

Journey to the End of the Night

To live in books is cowardly---but people are not worth investigation.

The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal

You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue.

There Once Was A Boy

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 touch with Reality.

Oswald Chambers

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

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

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 would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.

Conrad Black

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Charles Kingsley

The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

Bill Klem

Dae-su Oh: Erasing my memory and telling me to find the truth was cowardly. I won. So die like you promised.

Oldboy

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 is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Jean de la Bruyere

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

The Histories

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories

So answer me, are you merely a cowardly Moses, pointing the way to the Promised Land but poisoned by doubt and so unable to cross the River Jordan?

Nine Kinds of Naked