Quotes with cowardly

  • A love to Christ which is so cowardly and selfish that it is unwilling to proclaim by a public confession its faith in Him who hung before all the world crucified for sinners, is a love which is hardly worth the name.
  • Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds - a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.
  • To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

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  • Voltaire Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge A love to Christ which is so cowardly and selfish that it is unwilling to proclaim by a public confession its faith in Him who hung before all the world crucified for sinners, is a love which is hardly worth the name.
    Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Robert Burns Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
    Robert Burns
    Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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  • John Steinbeck A book is like a man: clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Elbert Hubbard A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Quintus Curtius Rufus A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
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  • Baroness Orczy An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
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  • Ben Horowitz Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Jeremy Collier How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Margaret Mead It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Blake Farenthold It's said that you can tell a lot about someone by who opposes them. In the case of liberal pundit Bill Maher - a man who called America's actions cowardly in the wake of 9/11 and who mocked WWII veterans who wanted to visit the monument built in their honor - I wear his disapproval of me as a badge of honor.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Voltaire One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Albert Camus Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds - a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Hermann Goering Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis - German National Socialism.
    Hermann Goering
    German Nazi politician and military leader
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  • Tacitus The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bill Klem The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.
    Bill Klem
    American professional baseball umpire (1874 - 1951)
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  • Napoleon The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Jean Paul The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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