1.
You have to keep your vision clear, cause only a coward lives in fear.
Nas
Maintain your focus, for only the faint of heart are crippled by apprehension.
2.
May the eyes of cowards never sleep
Khalid ibn al-Walid
May the laggards' vision remain ever vigilant.
3.
A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.
Julius Caesar
A timid individual succumbs to fear countless times, while the brave never experience the finality of mortality but once.
4.
To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.
Abraham Lincoln
Remain mute when their voice ought to be raised renders men craven.
5.
Each of us has his cowardice. Each of us is afraid to lose, afraid to die. But hanging back is the way to remain a coward for life. The Way to find courage is to seek it on the field of conflict. And the sure way to victory is willingness to risk one's own life.
Mas Oyama
6.
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
Che Guevara
'I am aware that your objective is to terminate me. Release the trigger, spineless one, you will only be taking a human life.'
7.
Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.
Zora Neale Hurston
Malignancy is the faint-hearted's retribution on the universe for having been injured.
8.
Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
Christopher Hitchens
9.
If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?
Lucretia Mott
10.
Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently.
Cus D'Amato
11.
Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Moderation is for cowards.
Marcus Luttrell
12.
I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.
Bobby Fischer
13.
If you are courageous, listen to the heart. If you are a coward, listen to the head.
Rajneesh
14.
My wife and I were present at this congress. Sabina told me, "Richard, stand up and wash away this shame from the face of Christ! They are spitting in His face." I said to her, "If I do so, you lose your husband." She replied, "I don't wish to have a coward as a husband.
Richard Wurmbrand
15.
I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.
Eugene V. Debs
16.
Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
George W. Bush
19.
I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.
Mickey Mantle
20.
Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.
Haruki Murakami
21.
[I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid or merely because he lacks the instruments of violence, he is not truly nonviolent. This is why Gandhi often said that if cowardice is the only alternative to violence, it is better to fight.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
22.
To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.
Bill Maher
23.
This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!
William Shakespeare
24.
I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me.
Kevin Garnett
25.
Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.
Pat Riley
26.
Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.
Piers Anthony
29.
I don't believe in living in the past. Living in the past is for cowards. If you live in the past, you die in the past.
Mike Ditka
30.
A coward can die many times, but love can only die once.
Kim Hyun-joong
31.
Currently we breed cowards and snitches. Whored society of sons of whores!
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
32.
If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.
Andrea Dworkin
35.
When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
Chinua Achebe
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It's the coward who says, 'This is fate'...It's the strong who stands up & says 'I will make my fate'
Swami Vivekananda
37.
He who knows the truth and does not speak it is a miserable coward.
Julius Streicher
38.
There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.
David Gemmell
39.
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast of thought
William Shakespeare
40.
I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
Edith Piaf
41.
I need not add that freedom is a dangerous thing. But it is hardly possible that we are all cowards.
Jack Parsons
42.
Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.
Alexandra David-Neel
43.
I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.
Swami Vivekananda
44.
Haters are cowards. When confronted they often back down. We must resist haters.
Janet Reno
45.
Now if you know what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain't you! You're better than that!
Sylvester Stallone
46.
A coward cannot have any prayer answered.
Nichiren
47.
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
W. E. B. Du Bois
48.
Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
John Gay
49.
The cowards never start and the weak die along the way.
Kit Carson
50.
The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor
Margaret Mitchell