Cowardice Quotes

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

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

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

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

Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.

I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.

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

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

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

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

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

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

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.

Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.

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

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.

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

We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason.

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

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.

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.