Cowardice Quotes
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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. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is not said: that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens. Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda. (Quote by - J.R.R. Tolkien)
Faint heart ne'er won fair lady. (Quote by - Miguel De Cervantes)
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. (Quote by - Aristotle)
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. (Quote by - Ben Kingsley)
How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination. (Quote by - Jeremy Collier)
I am so cautious that it sometimes verges on cowardice. (Quote by - Muhiddin Kabiri)
Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
When two parties from among you had determined that they should show cowardice, and Allah was the guardian of them both, and in Allah should the believers trust. (Quote by - quran)
Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice. (Quote by - Holbrook Jackson)
It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward. (Quote by - Dolores Ibarruri)
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. (Quote by - Confucius)
Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. (Quote by - Rollo May)
Thanks to the corporate cowardice of Bank of America and other companies, the morally illegitimate reparations movement gains strength. (Quote by - John Carlisle)
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille. (Quote by - Karl Marx)
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. (Quote by - Edwin Hubbel Chapin)
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. (Quote by - Kurt Huber)
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. (Quote by - Georges Bidault)
Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do not feel, they call it being tactful. Cowardice would be a much better name. (Quote by - Frank Medlicott)
When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward. (Quote by - Jack Handy)
Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural. (Quote by - Theophrastus)
It was just cowardice. That's trying to hurt people and there should be no place in the game for that. This was a disgrace. (Quote by - Pat Quinn)
A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. (Quote by - Quintus Curtius Rufus)
Some servants of the regime have chosen to fill their final days with acts of cowardice and murder, . In combat, Saddam's thugs shield themselves with women and children. They have killed Iraqi citizens who welcome coalition troops. They force other Iraqis into battle by threatening to torture or kill their families. (Quote by - Laura Bush)
We do not choose to be born.We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live--Courageously or in cowardice, Honorably or dishonorably, With purpose or adrift. We decide what is important and what is trivial. What makes us significant is what we DO, Or REFUSE TO DO. WE DECIDE and WE CHOOSE--and so we give definition to our lives. (Quote by - Joseph Epstein)
Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers. (Quote by - Swami Sivananda)
Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr.)
I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die. (Quote by - Mary Roberts Rinehart)
Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. (Quote by - Margaret Chase Smith)
In our relations with Russia you need to be patient and avoid provocations, but if events like the recent ones take place, you have to tell the truth -- cowardice is only an encouragement. (Quote by - Jaroslaw Kaczynski)
Life is languished away in the gloom of anxiety, and consumed in collecting resolutions which the next morning dissipates; in forming purposes which we scarcely hope to keep, and reconciling ourselves to our own cowardice by excuses which, while we. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
You know that she was the sacrifice on the altar of David Graham's ego, his cowardice, his utter lack of humanity. (Quote by - Michele Hartmann)
One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats. (Quote by - Jack Kelly)
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. (Quote by - Bishop Westcott)
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. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. (Quote by - Dr. Robert Anthony)
To see the right and not to do it is cowardice. (Quote by - Confucius)
What happened today was the act of cowards. Often people who do these things scurry back into the gutters they came from. I can say with confidence that we will spare no effort to track down and punish those responsible. It's important for the world to know that our nation will not bow to terrorists and faceless acts of cowardice. (Quote by - Heather Wilson)
In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking. (Quote by - Donald Rumsfeld)
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. (Quote by - Veronica Franco)
In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
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. (Quote by - Pietro Aretino)
Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information. (Quote by - Peter Ustinov)
Since I no longer expect/ anything from mankind except/ madness,/ meanness, and mendacity;/ egotism,/ cowardice,/ and/ self-delusion,/ I have stopped/ being a/ misanthrope. (Quote by - Irving Layton)
Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing. (Quote by - Abraham Maslow)
I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
We shall need compromises in the days ahead, to be sure. But these will be, or should be, compromises of issues, not principles. We can compromise our political positions, but not ourselves. We can resolve the clash of interests without conceding our ideals. And even the necessity for the right kind of compromise does not eliminate the need for those idealists and reformers who keep our compromises moving ahead, who prevent all political situations from meeting the description supplied by Shaw: "smirched with compromise, rotted with opportunism, mildewed by expedience, stretched out of shape with wirepulling and putrefied with permeation."(Quote by - )
Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive. (Quote by - George A. Knight)
As an old soldier I admit the cowardice : it's as universal as sea sickness, and matters just as little. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Cowardice. is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. (Quote by - Annie Dillard)
It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so. (Quote by - Junius)
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
I discovered a very bad financial situation which I wasn't scared to guarantee with my personal wealth. Now I'm leaving with a gesture which has nothing to do with cowardice. (Quote by - Florentino Perez)
To be made fun of and remain silent is cowardice. There is no reason to overlook this fact because one is within the palace. A man who makes fun of people is himself a fool. It was his own fault for being cut down. (Quote by - Lord Naoshige)
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True valor lies half way between cowardice and rashness. (Quote by - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
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. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle. (Quote by - Henry Addington)
Perhaps that's cowardice on my part. (Quote by - Carlos Castano)
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. (Quote by - Hosea Ballou)
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. (Quote by - Irving Wallace)
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
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. (Quote by - Clarence Darrow)
Why not look instead for evidence of cowardice, secrecy, and dishonesty -- the traits displayed by so many bishops which magnified the crisis into a public scandal?. (Quote by - Francis DeBernardo)
Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice. (Quote by - Adolf Hitler)
Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being. (Quote by - Daisaku Ikeda)
You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?. (Quote by - Peter De Vries)
The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither all-evil nor all-good but deficient, inconsistent, inferior. Principles invite us to do something about the morass of contradictions in which we function morally. Principles invite us to clean up our act; to become intolerant of moral laxity and compromise and cowardice and the turning away from what is upsetting: that secret gnawing of the heart that tells us that what we are doing is not right, and so counsels us that we'd be better off just not thinking about it. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
Fear has its use but cowardice has none. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack. (Quote by - Madame Chiang Kai-Shek)
It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards. Were all brave, they would lead a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting; but being all cowards, we go on very well. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. (Quote by - Plutarch)
It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman. (Quote by - William James)
Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen. (Quote by - Epictetus)
Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down. (Quote by - Mitch Albom)
Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo epitomizes the timidity, the cowardice of a media that has been manipulated, intimidated, bullied by an administration that has taken it to a high level. . lapdog news media. (Quote by - Frank Rich)
Humor is the most engaging cowardice. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. (Quote by - Christian Nevell Bovee)
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. (Quote by - Jean Baudrillard)
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Better far than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
These new crimes are hardly surprising to those of us who recognized the fraud behind the war from the very beginning and the vote obstruction in the 2004 national election. As the mountain of evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors has grown, so has the cowardice of the Democratic Party leadership. (Quote by - Michael Berg)
We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Are we prepared to lose a major city every year? . It's cowardice not to ask the question and cowardice on the public's part not to get engaged in the answer. (Quote by - Baruch Fischhoff)
Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
