Cowardice Quotes

All around me is cowardice and deceit.

So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.

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

The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.

Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

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

We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave.

Order or disorder depends on organisation and direction; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on tactical dispositions.

The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.

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

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.

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

. . . If you are really my children, you will fear nothing, stop at nothing. You will be like lions. We must rouse India and the whole world. No cowardice.

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.

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

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?

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

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

Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.

Politically correct is the language of cowardice.

When would he realize that it wasn't his infidelity I couldn't bear, but his cowardice?

Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.

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

Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.

A coward's courage is in his tongue.

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

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

Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself

Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the troublesome and incorrigible.

What if there are children who will suffer somehow because I failed to obey God? What if my cowardice costs even one child somewhere in the world his or her life?

I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.

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

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 its use but cowardice has none.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

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.