Cowardice Quotes

Fortune never helps the fainthearted.

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

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

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?

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.

What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.

Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness

Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!

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

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

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

You are less majestically neutral than cloaking your cowardice in principle.

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.

Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.

As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.

If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor.

To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice. It is never a question of who is right but what is right.

Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance.

Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.

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

To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.

The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the "other side.

Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.

So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!

Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.

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

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it.

Apparent confusion is a product of good order; apparent cowardice, of courage; apparent weakness, of strength.

Bullies are always cowards.

Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.

I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

Despair swallows up cowardice.

Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.

I was a coward. I went to the war.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.

The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice.

I think that is the ultimate cowardice, when someone makes your choices for you in an institutional way. And you just say, "Well, I have no other option."

Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates into guilty cowardice.

I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder . . . Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice.

Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.