Cowardice Quotes

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

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

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

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

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

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

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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