Cowards Quotes

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Abraham Lincoln

Men, Silence, Makes

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare

Death, Die, Before

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
Mark Twain

Human, Race, Carrying

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.
Bryant H. McGill

Selfish, Liars, Often

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
Vince Lombardi

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
Julius Caesar

Die, Before, Times

The world has no room for cowards.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
Orison Swett Marden

Spring, Afraid, Obstacles

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.
Mignon McLaughlin

Brave, Hardship, Endure

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.
Brooke Foss Westcott

Great, Men, Crisis

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
Dorothy Dix

Future, Live, Tomorrow

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.
Bill Maher

Away, Building, Airplane

Reflection makes men cowards.
William Hazlitt

Men, Makes, Reflection

The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
Jack Welch

Stand, Biggest, Managers

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Greatest, Known, Heroes

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
Ovid

Fortune, Prayers

You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
Jack Welch

Stand, System, Biggest

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
Martin Farquhar Tupper

Strong, Mind, Laugh

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
Sallust

Battle, Bravery, Risk

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
August Strindberg

Keep, Themselves, Dogs

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
Max Beerbohm

Makes, Conscience

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
John Gay

Love, Brave, Cruel

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.
Anna Julia Cooper

Heart, May, Pretty

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

Enemy, Violence, Themselves

This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.
Elmer Davis

Republic, Preserve

All enchantments die; only cowards die with them.
Charles Morgan

Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.
Walter Knott

Home, Lost, Find

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
Russell Baker

Two, Possible, Cars

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
August Strindberg

Courage, Fight, Themselves

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.
Margaret Mitchell

Fool, Brave, Fighting

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