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“I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films. I was very well paid for my age, and I could make choices, decide not to do a film for six months and wait until I'd get the right thing. Which made me quite a coward, you know. It's so easy to say no to stuff, and then, after a while, it's very hard to go back in.”

Knows Needs Wells Made Hard Age Film Young Choices Father Easy Stuff Waiting Months Lucky Six Paid Right Thing Wealthy Coward Six Months So Lucky

Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg

“I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.”

Thinking Persons Likes Coward Punk

Author:Ice Cube

“My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book.”

Years Book Ideas Running Belief Industry Coward Publishing Publishing Industry

Author:Jessa Crispin

“It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.”

Dare Coward Cowardice Insolent Fawns

Author:Junius

“Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.”

Revolution Independence Coward

Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“I feel like we are so much more comfortable sweeping things under the rug and putting on a brave face, and to me, sweeping under the rug is a coward move, not a brave move at all. I want to get out there and have a conversation.”

Want Feels Faces Moving Conversation Comfortable Brave Coward Sweeping Brave Face

Author:AnnaLynne McCord

“An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.”

Men Bravery Brave Indian Coward Despise Brave Man

Author:Chief Joseph

“In [Philip] Howard's view, our reliance on law, lawyers, and lawsuits has turned Americans into fat, neurotic cowards who 'go through the day looking over their shoulder instead of where they want to go.'”

Want Law Views Lawyer Shoulders Fats Coward Reliance Neurotic Philip Lawsuit

Author:Dahlia Lithwick

“There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards.”

Long Hard Secret Serious Hard Work Working It Coward Serious Business Long Marriage

Author:Ossie Davis

“There never could be a man so brave that he would not sometime, or in the end, turn part or all coward; or so wise that he was not, from beginning to end, part ass if you knew where to look; or so good that nothing at all about him was despicable.”

Ifs Men Looks Ends Turns Wise Brave Ass Coward Be A Man Despicable

Book:Guard of Honor

Source: Guard of Honor

“Fear doesn't necessarily mean that we have to stop. It doesn't mean that we are failures. It doesn't mean that we are cowards.”

Mean Coward

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“I don`t get angry often, but you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids, that will do it every time. Donald Trump, you`re a snivelling coward and leave Heidi the hell alone.”

Men Kids Hell Wife Trump Angry My Wife Mess Liars Coward Heidi Compulsive Liar

Author:Ted Cruz

“At the end of the day, capital is a coward. It's going to flee from wherever it perceives risk to be present in the marketplace.”

Ends Risk Perceive The End Of The Day Coward Marketplace

Author:Jon Huntsman, Jr.

“I was a coward. I'm still such a coward.”

Stills Coward

Author:Mary Downing Hahn

“Because the Republican Party are filled with cowards they're afraid to reach out to the Hispanic community, they're afraid to reach out to the black community.”

Black Community Party Republican Filled Coward Reach Out Republican Party Hispanic Black Community

Author:Andrew Breitbart

“Would we be the heroes or the cowards of the piece? Would we follow orders or stick to our principles, if those two things ever conflicted? Would we be the brave ones who still found the capacity for love - and for laughter - even while we were terrified?”

Ifs Stills Two Order Found Principles Pieces Hero Laughter Capacity Brave Sticks Two Things Coward Terrified

Author:Chris Cleave

“Most people are cowards.”

People Coward

Author:Bernard von NotHaus

“Certainly I'm not saying that you sit down and patiently accept injustice. I'm talking about a very strong force, where you stand up with all your might against an evil system, and you are not a coward.”

Might Evil Strong Force Talking Accepting Down And Injustice Coward Very Strong Where You Stand

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I always thought Cyrano De Bergerac was a coward. He could fight a hundred swordsmen, but he was afraid of his nose, and he was afraid of Roxanne. Jam as cowardly as anybody about facing my fears. So, you spend your you years as an artist fighting those hundred people that you happen not to fear. Then you wake up one morning and realize all this time you're afraid of your nose. That's what you're going to have to face for the rest of your life. And you don't feel very courageous. But, if you don't face it, you dry up as an artist.”

People Ifs Feels Years Happens Faces Artist Fighting Realizing Morning Hundred Wake Up Noses Dry Courageous Coward Rest Of Your Life Jam Cowardly Dry Up Swordsman

Author:Michael Ventura

“If you're a generous person, when you get money and fame, you're going to be more generous. If you're a sharer, you're going to be more sharing. If you're a coward, you're just going to be a bigger coward. That's all money and fame does.”

Ifs Persons Doe Fame Bigger Generous Coward Get Money Money And Fame Generous Person

Author:Steve Harvey

“I think I am more of a coward than anybody. It's a very weird feeling. The more I fear violence, the more I'm inclined to depict it in films.”

Thinking Feelings Film Violence Coward Weird Feeling

Author:Takeshi Kitano

“Black people we've been taught that we will never be free, until some will have to die, some will have to give up wealth, their loved ones, and their health, So, what I'm doin' is for myself and for justice for black people, runnin' will kill it all, it'll make me a coward.”

People Giving Dies Black Wealth Justice Taught Giving Up Coward Black People Loved Ones

Author:Muhammad Ali

“Sometimes I think I'm a nihilist because it doesn't matter, none of this matters. We're all following the will of some unknowable higher power, probably the stars manipulating our cellular magnets. We think we have all this agency, but do we? Do we really? Can you choose to be brave when you were born a coward? Can we be deprogrammed from the brainwashing that we grew up in? I think we can, but I think we need a lot of help.”

Thinking Sometimes Helping Brave Coward You Choose Be Brave Magnet Higher Power Brainwashing Nihilist

Author:Ottessa Moshfegh

“When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.”

People Two Car Fool Clever Variety Coward

Author:Russell Baker

“Woodrow Wilson was the president of the United States in 1920, and he was made a fool of - his wife almost divorced him - because he wouldn't support women's suffrage. He was president during World War I, but I look back upon him as a coward. Because he knew the right thing to do - the right of women to vote was an idea whose time had come a long time before then, when a lot of women were put into prison or persecuted because they fought for it.”

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Author:Wayne Dyer

“This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.”

People Needs Enemy Violence Willing Bunch Treated Warrior Nonsense Coward Reincarnation Vicious Complacent Formidable Acts Of Violence Perpetuating Senseless Violence

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.”

Bits Dark Coward Frightened

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.”

Want Has Beens Building What You Want Miles Staying Coward Airplane Missiles Cowardly Cruise Aeroplanes Miles Away

Author:Bill Maher

“A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.”

Source: The Quality of Courage

“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.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Looks Eye Fear Animal Spring Sight Obstacles Coward Liable Immature Wild Animal Face Your Fears Fears Of Life Facing Fear Bluffs

Book:The Optimistic Life

Source: The Optimistic Life

“If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?”

Ifs Want Guy Fighting Scared Coward

Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.”

World Lying Literature Fool Fairs Selfish Selfishness Liars Coward Not Fair Being Selfish High Places Selfish People Selfish Love Not Selfish I Am Selfish Selfish World

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.”

Women Courage Bravery Brave Endure Suspense Hardship Coward Hardships And Success

Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“I'm a hero with coward's legs.”

Hero Legs Coward

Author:Spike Milligan

“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.”

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Author:Margaret Mitchell

“I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.”

World Behinds Excuse Connected Digital Coward Hiding Behaviour Bully Inappropriate Keyboards

Author:Tony Parsons

“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.”

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Author:George S. Patton

“A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.”

“I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.”

Persons Just One Coward

Author:Edith Piaf

“That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.”

Men Seems Courage Bravery Brave Suits Thoughtful Coward Coward And Courage

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

“There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.”

Humor Funny Literature Levels Crazy Silly Coward Cowardice Deep Thought Fashionable Conformist Objectivism Non Conformist

Author:Ayn Rand

“I'm a complete coward in real life.”

Real Real Life Coward

Author:Seth Rogen

“Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.”

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Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.”

Inspirational Fear Known Dare Martial Arts Coward Cowardice Boast

Author:Bertrand Russell

“The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.”

Firsts Heart Character Hands Pain Virtue Honesty Bears Integrity Equal Terrorism Torture Coward Foe Quails

Author:Bertrand Russell

“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.”

Knows Hands Animal Powerful Enemy Courage Depends Weapons Gun Conviction Coward Fists Powerful Weapons

Author:David Seabury

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

Thinking War Peace Courage Military Legs Sarcastic Coward Cowardice Emergencies Coward And Courage

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition

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

“You cannot be a hero without being a coward.”

Hero Coward Heroism Being A Hero

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, 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.”

Looks May Happens Eye Faces Leader Danger Acknowledge Coward Contrast Sloppy Guarding

Author:Simon Sinek

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