Cowardice Quotations | Page 2

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.

There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.

To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.

Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.

As an old soldier I admit the cowardice : it's as universal as sea sickness, and matters just as little.

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

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

What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.

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

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.

Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

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

True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence

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

Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.

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.

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.

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

It is cowardice to commit suicide.

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.

Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God.

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

Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.

Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.

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

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

We are all born cowards.

To cowards what advice shall I offer? - nothing whatsoever have I to say.

This world is not for cowards.

The coward is an object to be pitied.

Cowardice is no virtue.

Bullies are always cowards.

The thing that cowardice fears most is decision

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

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

Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener;

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.