Cowardice Quotes

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Confidence, Through, Hatred

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Mark Twain

Good, Against, Temptation

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Mahatma Gandhi

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Aristotle

Death, True, Away

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.
Confucius

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
Robert Frost

Humor, Engaging

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

Level, Conformist, Lower

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Life, Greatest, Nothing

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway

Almost, Simply, Ability

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.
Swami Sivananda

Spiritual, Humility, Weakness

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
George Jackson

Patience, Far, Limits

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
Jim Hightower

Courage, Dead, Fish

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Rollo May

Courage, Society, Conformity

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
Charles Caleb Colton

Live, Die, Sometimes

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Plutarch

Courage, Between, Lack

Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.
Billy Connolly

Time, Dark, Speak

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
Robert Anthony

Bravery, Conformity, Opposite

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Courage, Brave, Desperate

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.
Kurt Huber

Justice, Law, Against

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
Irving Wallace

Self, Wrong, Easy

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
Eric Hoffer

Strong, Made, Fashion

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
Peter Ustinov

Good, Courage, Often

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
Clarence Darrow

Life, Faith, Hope

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Men, Courage, Opinion

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.
Holbrook Jackson

Patience, Far, Limits

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
Pietro Aretino

Mind, Heart, High

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Miguel de Cervantes

Between, Lies, Valor

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
Miguel de Cervantes

True, Between, Lies

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
Jean Baudrillard

Love, Courage, True

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
Randall Terry

Try, Christians, Retreat

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