Best 303 quotes in «cowardice quotes» category

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

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

Bravery escapes more dangers than cowardice.

Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it.

Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.

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

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.

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

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!

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

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

Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

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

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.

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

Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.

Despair swallows up cowardice.

Do not run away, it is cowardice.

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

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

Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

faint heart never won fair lady

Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

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

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

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

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

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.

Fortune never helps the fainthearted.

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

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

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

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

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.

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

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

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

If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.