Cowardly Quotes

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

~ Dee Remy

A coward is a man who'd rather live dead than die alive

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

You feed your fears to grow muscles against you when you run away from what frightens you. Little do you know that it’s frightened when you face it boldly!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Not enough youths fighting windmills. And the old are fearful, jaded or dead. Do not ask me what to do. I am just as cowardly as you. And do not tell me it is enough to speak the truth; that it is bravery enough. Every mountain leveled to the ground, every forest burned, every man, woman, and child who lost their shanties to arsonist fires were defended to the heavens—with words.

~ Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

But I was not good enough. You should understand this about me—I am not a hero; not one to tap unknown reserves of courage; not one to rise to circumstance. I am the understudy who chokes on his lines when he is forced onto the stage. I am never, ever good enough.

~ Dexter Palmer

Dad scowls. Phen. He says the name like it's a swear word. Disgusting, cowardly creatures, the ambivalent. Worse than the fallen, in many ways. His eyes are so fierce it's a tad scary. They have no conviction at all.

~ Cynthia Hand

A coward's gun is emptied when fear pulls the trigger, and hate is the ammunition of choice.

~ T.f. Hodge

Guilt is a lazy feeling that takes no action, the wings of integrity are the only thing that sets it free.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I am stupid, am I not? What more can I want? If you ask them who is brave--who is true--who is just--who is it they would trust with their lives?--they would say, Tuan Jim. And yet they can never know the real, real truth....

~ Joseph Conrad

To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly.

~ Jodi Lynn Anderson

When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.

~ Salman Rushdie

Tradition has made women cowardly.

~ Nance O'neil