Cowardice Quotes

Cowardice Quote of the day

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

The power of evil men lives on the cowardice of the good.

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

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

You disappoint yourself more often by not doing things because of cowardice and temerity than you ever did by doing things that turn out to be wrong.

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

Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

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

Optimism is 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.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

Vice never leads to virtue. Hate never promotes love. Cowardice never gives courage. Doubt never inspires faith.

Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.

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?

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?

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.

The thing that cowardice fears most is decision

To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

Janetty tried to dive through the window to escape, what an act of 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.

There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed.

Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood.

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.

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.

We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.

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.

But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my country.

I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.

Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.)

You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.

All around me is cowardice and deceit.