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
- “A coward turns away, but a brave man’s choice is danger.” ~ Euripides
- “Fatigue makes cowards of us all.” ~ Vince Lombardi
- “A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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“A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “The coward only threatens when he is safe.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Cowards can never be moral.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “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
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“Slander is the tool of cowards.” ~ Vanna Bonta
- “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
- “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
- “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
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“Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “Bullies are always cowards at heart and maybe credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.” ~ Anna Julia Cooper
- “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
- “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
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“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.” ~ Hosea Ballou
- “The world has no room for cowards.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
- “Nice guys do not finish last. Last place is for the cowards and those too full of fear to take action.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
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“Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.” ~ George Eliot
- “An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.” ~ Chief Joseph
- “Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.” ~ George W. Bush
- “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
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“The coward never on himself relies, But to an equal for assistance flies.” ~ George Crabbe
- “I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.” ~ Che Guevara
- “Reflection makes men cowards.” ~ William Hazlitt
- “The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.” ~ Gene Hackman
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“Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.” ~ Euripides
- “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
- “Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.” ~ John Gay
- “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
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“Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
- “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 - “The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.” ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- “A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.” ~ Mickey Mantle
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“Bullies are always cowards.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
- “These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying.” ~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- “It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.” ~ Dolores Ibarruri
- “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
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“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
- “He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
- “A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.” ~ Jean Paul
- “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
- “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
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“All men would be cowards if they could.” ~ John Wilmot
- “It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.” ~ Voltaire
- “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
- “Only the brave know how to forgive… a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.” ~ Laurence Sterne
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“Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.” ~ Queen Elizabeth II
- “Nice guys do not finish last. Last place is for the cowards and those too full of fear to take action.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
- “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
- “This republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it.” ~ Elmer Davis
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“To be called a coward, I don’t think that’s fair” ~ Rodney Alexander
- “You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do” ~ Mark Twain
- “Despair gives courage to a coward.” ~ Thomas Fuller
- “He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.” ~ Albert Camus
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“The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.” ~ Max Beerbohm
- “The human race is a race of cowards, and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.” ~ Mark Twain
- “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
- “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
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“Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.” ~ Oliver Goldsmith
- “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
- “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
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“I guess you could say I’m cautious, or a coward.” ~ Namie Amuro
- “Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It’ll discredit any real legitimate movement.” ~ Glenn Beck
- “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.
