Cowardice Quotes

Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?

Never allow weakness to overtake your mind. Remember Mahavira, remember the Divine Mother! And you will see that all weakness, all cowardice will vanish at once.

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.

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.

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.

For peace, with justice and honor, is the fairest and most profitable of possessions, but with disgrace and shameful cowardice, it is the most infamous and harmful of all.

...Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that.

I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

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.

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

Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice.

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

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

Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

A fortress is of no use to cowards.

The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.

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.

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

We are all born cowards.

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy.

To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment--are all the blackest of black lies.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic.

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.

True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.

Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.

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.

Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.

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

We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite, Encompassed with thy lustful paramours, Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age And twit with cowardice a man half dead?

There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes from consulting one's own personal convenience.

Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.

Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.

Better it were not to live than to live a coward.

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

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.