Quotes about Cowardice

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen. Votes: 5

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness. Votes: 5

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice. Votes: 5

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural. Votes: 5

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. Votes: 4

Optimism is cowardice. Votes: 3

Cowardice is no virtue. Votes: 3

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. Votes: 3

Cowardice is the greatest sin. Votes: 3

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty. Votes: 3

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.... Votes: 3

Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom. Votes: 3

Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances. Votes: 3

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Votes: 3

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices. Votes: 3

Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God. Votes: 3

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice. Votes: 3

Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life Votes: 3

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame. Votes: 3

Cowardice, when done correctly, can be its own kind of bravery. Votes: 3

Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin. Votes: 3

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. Votes: 3

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. Votes: 3

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. Votes: 3

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers. Votes: 3

Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right? Votes: 3

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information. Votes: 3

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice. Votes: 3

Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances. Votes: 3

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it. Votes: 3

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves. Votes: 3

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents. Votes: 3

Vice never leads to virtue. Hate never promotes love. Cowardice never gives courage. Doubt never inspires faith. Votes: 3

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them? Votes: 3

Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor. Votes: 3

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk Votes: 3

Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire. Votes: 3

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. Votes: 3

I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year. Votes: 3

Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit. Votes: 3

To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. Votes: 3

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. Votes: 3

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen. Votes: 3

Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice! Votes: 3

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die. Votes: 3

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue). Votes: 3

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice? Votes: 3

Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart. Votes: 3

You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before crimes...and patient to the point of martyrdom before all the violences of bold despotism. Votes: 3

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 this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. Votes: 3

He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure. Votes: 3

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire. Votes: 3

Humor is the most engaging cowardice. Votes: 2

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. Votes: 2

Fear has its use but cowardice has none. Votes: 2

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. Votes: 2

Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice. Votes: 2

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. Votes: 2

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice. Votes: 2

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice. Votes: 2

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. Votes: 2

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers. Votes: 2

There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it. Votes: 2

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. Votes: 2

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men Votes: 1

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity Votes: 1

Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance. Votes: 1

If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward Votes: 1

Survival feels like cowardice. Votes: 0

Despair swallows up cowardice. Votes: 0

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice. Votes: 0

Compromise does not mean cowardice. Votes: 0

Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice. Votes: 0

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. Votes: 0

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage Votes: 0

Bravery escapes more dangers than cowardice. Votes: 0

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice. Votes: 0

Lying's a certain mark of cowardice. Votes: 0

Lies come from fear, from cowardice. Votes: 0

Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Votes: 0

It is cowardice to commit suicide. Votes: 0

Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred. Votes: 0

Politically correct is the language of cowardice. Votes: 0

Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice. Votes: 0

To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice. Votes: 0

Pacifism is a virtue indistinguishable from cowardice. Votes: 0

Do not run away, it is cowardice. Votes: 0

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice. Votes: 0

Fear breeds cowardice, and cowardice compels bravery. Votes: 0

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice. Votes: 0

Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts Votes: 0

All around me is cowardice and deceit. Votes: 0

Pacifism is a virtue indisguishable from cowardice. Votes: 0

The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology. Votes: 0

It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice. Votes: 0

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice. Votes: 0

Is there cowardice with the acknowledgement of fear? Votes: 0

The thing that cowardice fears most is decision Votes: 0

Fear has its uses but cowardice has none. Votes: 0

Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy. Votes: 0

My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death. Votes: 0

All doubt is cowardice - all trust is brave. Votes: 0

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice. Votes: 0

Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it. Votes: 0

Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin. Votes: 0

Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved. Votes: 0

True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness. Votes: 0

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme. Votes: 0

Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice. Votes: 0

Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle. Votes: 0

I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity. Votes: 0

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice. Votes: 0

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage. Votes: 0

The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage. Votes: 0

In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking. Votes: 0

You are less majestically neutral than cloaking your cowardice in principle. Votes: 0

Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice. Votes: 0

Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise. Votes: 0

Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur. Votes: 0

Fear is not a sin in the taiga, but cowardice is [..]. Votes: 0

Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice. Votes: 0

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome. Votes: 0

Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege. Votes: 0

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice. Votes: 0

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence Votes: 0

The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others. Votes: 0

To act without knowledge is folly, to know without acting is cowardice. Votes: 0

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice. Votes: 0

The power of evil men lives on the cowardice of the good. Votes: 0

Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice. Votes: 0

Pride, cowardice, and miserliness are bad for me but good for women Votes: 0

Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so. Votes: 0

Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope. Votes: 0

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage. Votes: 0

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural. Votes: 0

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. Votes: 0

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well. Votes: 0

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind. Votes: 0

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin. Votes: 0

Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves? Votes: 0

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence. Votes: 0

The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority. Votes: 0

Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity. Votes: 0

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. Votes: 0

Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice. Votes: 0

Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic. Votes: 0

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Votes: 0

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice. Votes: 0

I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense. Votes: 0

Janetty tried to dive through the window to escape, what an act of cowardice. Votes: 0

Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice. Votes: 0

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice. Votes: 0

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice... Votes: 0

Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it. Votes: 0

Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men. Votes: 0

I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice. Votes: 0

Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness Votes: 0

I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips. Votes: 0

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice. Votes: 0

When would he realize that it wasn't his infidelity I couldn't bear, but his cowardice? Votes: 0

Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits. Votes: 0

If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice. Votes: 0

Hanging a noose on my door reeks of cowardice and fear on many, many levels. Votes: 0

That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. Votes: 0

No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself. . . Votes: 0

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail. Votes: 0

Order or disorder depends on organisation; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on dispositions. Votes: 0

Giving your team cover for their cowardice is foolish. Give them a platform for bravery instead. Votes: 0

Apparent confusion is a product of good order; apparent cowardice, of courage; apparent weakness, of strength. Votes: 0

This cult of the future is not only a weakness but a cowardice of the age. Votes: 0

They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice. Votes: 0

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener; Votes: 0

Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own. Votes: 0

He felt in his heart cruelty and cowardice, the things which made him brave and kind. Votes: 0

Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Votes: 0

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness. Votes: 0

To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice. Votes: 0

Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation. Votes: 0

Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave. Votes: 0

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice. Votes: 0

So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist. Votes: 0

That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me. Votes: 0

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been. Votes: 0

When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot. Votes: 0

There is a term called political correctness, and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowardice. Votes: 0

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. Votes: 0

In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves! Votes: 0

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little. Votes: 0

Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage. Votes: 0

It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice. Votes: 0

Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong. Votes: 0

What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune. Votes: 0

Alec would have said he could have benefited from a bit more in the way of constructive cowardice. Votes: 0

Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous. Votes: 0

The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful. Votes: 0

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice. Votes: 0

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it. Votes: 0

I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle. Votes: 0

Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice. Votes: 0

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities. Votes: 0

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all. Votes: 0

Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice. Votes: 0

I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle Votes: 0

cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality. Votes: 0

I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle. Votes: 0

... the courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side'... Votes: 0

Leaving others alone is a sign of cowardice, whether you are involved in a war or in a relationship. Votes: 0

No one is born to courage, Juliet. Courage is a habit you develop after cowardice has gotten you nothing. Votes: 0

There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice. Votes: 0

We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear. Votes: 0

But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived? Votes: 0

The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the "other side. Votes: 0

Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go. Votes: 0

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts. Votes: 0

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice! Votes: 0

I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love. Votes: 0

We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive. Votes: 0

The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth. Votes: 0

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice. Votes: 0

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille Votes: 0

As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats. Votes: 0

With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries. Votes: 0

How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice? Votes: 0

The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices. Votes: 0

Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice. Votes: 0

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. Votes: 0

Tomorrow's world can not exist without morals, without faith and memory. Cynicism, narrow interests and cowardice must not occupy our lives. Votes: 0

If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it. Votes: 0

The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice. Votes: 0

I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder . . . Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice. Votes: 0

There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood. Votes: 0

For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly? Votes: 0

Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain. Votes: 0

Mercy and cowardice are the same," she snapped out. "But you want their land, not their lives, no? Dead men can't obey. Votes: 0

Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice. Votes: 0

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion. Votes: 0

It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God. Votes: 0

Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him. Votes: 0

To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment--are all the blackest of black lies. Votes: 0

When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and hate. Votes: 0

We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on. Votes: 0

Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope. Votes: 0

Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others. Votes: 0

I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it. Votes: 0

Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting. Votes: 0

The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith. Votes: 0

...Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that. Votes: 0

Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one! Votes: 0

Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter. Votes: 0

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice... Votes: 0

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness. Votes: 0

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism. Votes: 0

For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself. Votes: 0

Every man is sensitive. Some cover it up with brutality, others with cowardice and vanity, but a small few wear it bravely like armor Votes: 0

To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity. Votes: 0

Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind. Votes: 0

What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing. Votes: 0

To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice. It is never a question of who is right but what is right. Votes: 0

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot. Votes: 0

We may place blame, give reasons, and even have excuses; but in the end, it is an act of cowardice to not follow your dreams. Votes: 0

To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.) Votes: 0

For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion. Votes: 0

Never allow weakness to overtake your mind. Remember Mahavira, remember the Divine Mother! And you will see that all weakness, all cowardice will vanish at once. Votes: 0

Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice. Votes: 0

It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune. Votes: 0

There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed. Votes: 0

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind. Votes: 0

To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice. Votes: 0

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense. Votes: 0

people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice. Votes: 0

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You disappoint yourself more often by not doing things because of cowardice and temerity than you ever did by doing things that turn out to be wrong. Votes: 0

I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power. Votes: 0

Being strong is not the same as being a strong being. I should know because cowardice runs in my family, as I always run from my fears. Votes: 0

If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A curse on him who begins in gentleness. He shall finish in insipidity and cowardice, and shall never step foot in the great liberating current of Christianity. Votes: 0

The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence. Votes: 0

Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the troublesome and incorrigible. Votes: 0

There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes from consulting one's own personal convenience. Votes: 0

She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love. Votes: 0

. . . If you are really my children, you will fear nothing, stop at nothing. You will be like lions. We must rouse India and the whole world. No cowardice. Votes: 0

When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity. Votes: 0

Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die. Votes: 0

Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates into guilty cowardice. Votes: 0

On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the present the lineaments of times to come. Votes: 0

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice Votes: 0

I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving, or not loving well, which is the same thing. Votes: 0

For peace, with justice and honor, is the fairest and most profitable of possessions, but with disgrace and shameful cowardice, it is the most infamous and harmful of all. Votes: 0

Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor... Votes: 0

Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor... Votes: 0

We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave. Votes: 0

...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were afraid to own them. Votes: 0

True patriots believe that freedom from responsibility is selfishness, freedom from sacrifice is cowardice, freedom from tolerance is prejudice, freedom from stewardship is exploitation, and freedom from compassion is cruelty. Votes: 0

True devotion must not get dispirited; nor elated or satisfied with lesser gains; it must fight against failure, loss, calumny, calamity, ridicule and against egoism and pride , impatience and cowardice . Votes: 0

Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite, Encompassed with thy lustful paramours, Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age And twit with cowardice a man half dead? Votes: 0

The war on Christmas is waged of weakness and fed by vision blinded. It is a war of intellect blunted to stupidity and calling begging at the feet of cowardice. Votes: 0

To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice. Votes: 0

What if there are children who will suffer somehow because I failed to obey God? What if my cowardice costs even one child somewhere in the world his or her life? Votes: 0

No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it." I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity. Votes: 0

There is no lack of bravery in the ranks of our armed forces, but bureaucratic cowardice rules in our intelligence establishment (as well as at the higher levels of military command). Votes: 0

I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages. Votes: 0

If commissars in Soviet Russia agreed to subordinate themselves to state power, they could at least plead fear in extenuation. Their counterparts in more free and open societies can plead only cowardice. Votes: 0

India was not a pacifist country at all. India placed great emphasis on the higher value on... on violence. But it was never a substitute for not doing anything, or for cowardice. Votes: 0

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged. Votes: 0

If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor. Votes: 0

Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me. Votes: 0

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Choices! Choices!! Choices!!! I have chosen love over hate.I have chosen faith over fears.I have chosen courage over cowardice.I have chosen strength over weakness.I have chosen positive thinking over negative thoughts. Votes: 0

I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened of wearing a yellow star. It was fear, it was cowardice, I was. Votes: 0

Lieutenant al-Kaseasbeh's dedication, courage and service to his country and family represent universal human values that stand in opposition to the cowardice and depravity of ISIL, which has been so broadly rejected around the globe. Votes: 0

The one thing you can count on in Hollywood - across the board - is cowardice. Votes: -1