Best 303 quotes in «cowardice quotes» category

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

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

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

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

faint heart never won fair lady

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

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

Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

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

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.

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

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

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

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?

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 think that is the ultimate cowardice, when someone makes your choices for you in an institutional way. And you just say, "Well, I have no other option.

It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

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.

It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our 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.

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

It was the cowards who died many times before their death.

Lying's a certain mark of cowardice.

My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!

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

Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it.

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

Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.

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

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.

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

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

Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.

Optimism is cowardice.

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

Politically correct is the language of cowardice.

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

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