Motivational Coward Quotes And Sayings In Life

These coward quotes will inspire you. Coward means to be afraid of something. It’s also a state where you’re afraid of things, danger, or pain. A person who is contemptibly lacking in the courage to do or endure dangerous or unpleasant things.

A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging coward quotes, coward sayings, and coward proverbs.

Best Coward Quotes

1. “A coward turns away, but a brave man’s choice is danger.” ~ Euripides
2. “Fatigue makes cowards of us all.” ~ Vince Lombardi
3. “A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

4. “A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

5. “The coward only threatens when he is safe.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
6. “Cowards can never be moral.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
7. “The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.” ~ Andrew Jackson

8. “Slander is the tool of cowards.” ~ Vanna Bonta

9. “All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.” ~ George S. Patton
10. “We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth-tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
11. “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

12. “Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

13. “Bullies are always cowards at heart and maybe credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.” ~ Anna Julia Cooper
14. “Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.” ~ Johann Kaspar Lavate”A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.” ~ John Calvin
15. “The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.” ~ Bob Marley , Coward quotes love

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

17. “Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.” ~ Hosea Ballou
18. “The world has no room for cowards.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
19. “Nice guys do not finish last. Last place is for the cowards and those too full of fear to take action.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki

20. “Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.” ~ George Eliot

21. “An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.” ~ Chief Joseph
22. “Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.” ~ George W. Bush
23. “Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.” ~ George S. Patton

24. “The coward never on himself relies, But to an equal for assistance flies.” ~ George Crabbe

25. “I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.” ~ Che Guevara
26. “Reflection makes men cowards.” ~ William Hazlitt
27. “The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.” ~ Gene Hackman

28. “Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.” ~ Euripides

29. “Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi , Coward quotes man
30. “Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.” ~ John Gay
31. “Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.” ~ Epictetus

32. “Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.” ~ Ambrose Bierce

33. “Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!
    Thou little valiant, great in villainy!
    Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!
    Thou Fortune’s champion, that dost never fight
    But where her humorous ladyship is by
    To teach thee safety.” ~ William Shakespeare
34. “The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.” ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
35. “A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.” ~ Mickey Mantle

36. “Bullies are always cowards.” ~ Swami Vivekananda

37. “These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying.” ~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
38. “It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.” ~ Dolores Ibarruri
39. “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

40. “While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.” ~ Al Gore

41. “He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
42. “A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.” ~ Jean Paul
43. “You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.” ~ Giuseppe Garibaldi
44. “We want to tell him [Blair] that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured.” ~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

45. “All men would be cowards if they could.” ~ John Wilmot

46. “It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.” ~ Voltaire
47. “Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.” ~ Brooke Westcott
48. “Only the brave know how to forgive… a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.” ~ Laurence Sterne

49. “Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.” ~ Queen Elizabeth II

50. “Nice guys do not finish last. Last place is for the cowards and those too full of fear to take action.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
51. “Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.” ~ David Seabury
52. “This republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it.” ~ Elmer Davis

53. “To be called a coward, I don’t think that’s fair” ~ Rodney Alexander

54. “You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do” ~ Mark Twain
55. “Despair gives courage to a coward.” ~ Thomas Fuller
56. “He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.” ~ Albert Camus

57. “The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.” ~ Max Beerbohm

58. “The human race is a race of cowards, and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.” ~ Mark Twain
59. “It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.” ~ Sallust
60. “I am convinced that a light supper, a good night’s sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.” ~ Lord Chesterfield

61. “Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.” ~ Oliver Goldsmith

62. “Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last, some crisis shows us what we have become.” ~ Brooke Westcott
63. “I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.” ~ Richard Cobden

64. “I guess you could say I’m cautious, or a coward.” ~ Namie Amuro

65. “Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It’ll discredit any real legitimate movement.” ~ Glenn Beck
66. “President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O’Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.” ~ Kevin Costner

Coward is a person who is not brave and is too eager to avoid danger, difficulty, or pain.

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