Best 303 quotes in «cowardice quotes» category

You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. You’ve never turned the wrong to right. You’ve been a coward in the fight.

You must learn to overcome your cowardice, and put God, His principles and the things of His kingdom, that you are called to establish, first in your life

Young man, be of good courage. Care not for what the world says or thinks: you will not be with the world always. Can man save your soul? No. Will man be your judge in the great and dreadful day of account? No. Can man give you a good conscience in life, a good hope in death, a good answer in the morning of resurrection? No! no! no! Man can do nothing of the sort. Then "fear not the reproach of men, neither be afraid of their revilings: for the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool" (Isa. 51:7,8). Call to your mind the saying of good Colonel Gardiner: "I fear God, and therefore I have none else to fear." Go and be like him.

A coward's courage is in his tongue.

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

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

A fortress is of no use to cowards.

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

Bravery escapes more dangers than cowardice.

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?

Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.

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

All around me is cowardice and deceit.

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.

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

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

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.

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.

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

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!

Despair swallows up cowardice.

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

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Do not run away, it is cowardice.

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

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.

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

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

Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

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

Fortune never helps the fainthearted.

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

Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.

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

faint heart never won fair lady

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

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

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

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.