338 Quotes About Cowardice
- Author Aristotle
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To die to escape from poverty or love or anything painful is not the mark of a brave man, but rather of a cowrd; for it is softness to fly from what is troublesome, and such a man endures death not because it is noble but to fly from evil
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- Author Jim Butcher
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If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.
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- Author Gustave Flaubert
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He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.
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- Author James Clemens
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But often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.
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- Author Andrzej Sapkowski
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A coward,' he declared with dignity, when he'd stopped coughing and had got his breath back, 'dies a hundred times. A brave man dies but once. But Dame Fortune favours the brave and holds the coward in contempt.'— Dandelion
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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At times it is what we do not say, or not saying a thing, that says a lot about us.
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- Author Ouida
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I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.
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- Author Michael Bassey Johnson
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If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you commit suicide than to be dragged along like a donkey.
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- Author Donna Lynn Hope
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She has her helmet, shield and sword. Does she finish him or take pity on the gutless thing before her?Does she set fire and smoke him out, forcing him to fight, or does she let him live with himself and take satisfaction from knowing that he has never been in a real fight in his life and that one day he will have to face his demons in person, along with the consequences, and that both can be far more painful than anything she could ever do to him.
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