C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.”
Source: Henry V
“Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“Coward: someone who in a bad situation thinks with his feet”
“Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.”
“Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.”
Source: Cool memories
“Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?”
Source: The Role of the Behavioral Scientist in the Civil Rights Movement
“Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?”
“Cowardice can be defended bravely without self-refutation, because the opposite of cowardice is not courage but bravado.”
“Cowardice, child? You don't strike me as that sort. You have the heart of a lioness. I can see it in your eyes." The old woman nodded. "He'll need a lioness. To save him from his demons. You could do it, child. If you were brave enough and strong enough. Willing to risk it all. Risk heartbreak and death and even your soul for him. With little assurance of reward."
"Why should I want to?"
Lady Seldane laughed, the fat chuckles rolling from her body. "Because you love him, child. Any fool can see that. And it dooms you. Even if you wanted to escape, it's too late. You'll save him. Or destroy yourself in the attempt.”
Source: To Love a Dark Lord
“Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.”
“Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.”
Source: American ideals and other essays, social and political
“Cowardice is for cowards. Fear is for people with brains and eyes and functioning nerve endings.”
Source: The Wolf Wilder
“Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life”
“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.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.”
Source: None High: None Low
“Cowardice is no virtue.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God.”
“Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.”
Source: The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics
“Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.”
Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings
“Cowardice is the greatest sin.”
“Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.”
“Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.”
Source: The Complete Essays of Montaigne (107 annotated essays in 1 eBook + The Life of Montaigne + The Letters of Montaigne)
“Cowardice is to couch our selfish actions in the finery of such noble phrases as bravery and determination. Yet the worst cowardice of all is our refusal to admit to the illegitimate use of such words.”
“Cowardice is when you hide away from your real self, and wear another self in pretense. Be yourself; that is bravery. If yourself is not better for you to be, change yourself and live in that changed self!”
Source: Leaders' Watchwords
“cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.”
Source: Green Dolphin Street
“Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.”
“Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice!”
Source: THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.”
“Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.”
“Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“Cowardice, when done correctly, can be its own kind of bravery.”
Source: Apathy and Other Small Victories: A Novel
“Cowardly dogs bark loudest.”
“Cowardly isn’t a dereliction of duty, but rather a part of our humanity. However, only the brave ones are known for their humanity.”
Source: Dominion
“Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does.”
Source: Some everyday folk and dawn
“Cowards and haters love to talk shit about you… but have you ever noticed their behavior when you’re in the same room? It’s the entertaining dance of the spineless.”
“Cowards and vegetables talk of fate, while the valiant is up and working.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“Cowards are always much more dangerous than heroes.”
Source: The Price of Creation
“Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.”
Source: Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives
“Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.”
Source: Fresno Stories (New Directions Bibelot)
“Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel.”
Source: And so to the playhouse
“Cowards can handle Arms, can strike where they are sure to meet with no Return, can wound, mangle and murder; but it belongs to brave Men to spare, and to protect.”
Source: A narrative of the late massacres, in Lancaster County, of a number of Indians, friends of this province, by persons unknown: with some observations on the same
“Cowards can never be moral.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“Cowards can't be faulted for being shy. They can't be held responsible for anything.”
“Cowards cannot have an adventure, because adventure requires staying calm when things get roughy!”
“Cowards cannot pass beyond the walls or beyond the wire fences! For them, frontiers are always the end of the road!”
“Cowards...cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye.”
“Cowards cut and run, Marines never do.”
“Cowards dare others to do what they themselves do not dare to do.”
“Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.”
“Cowards die, I am already martyred.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work