Cowardice Quotes

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

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

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.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

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

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.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

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.

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

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

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.

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.

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.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

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