Cowardice Quotes

A fortress is of no use to cowards.

— Thiruvalluvar

To know and ignore is the cowards way.

— Daniyal Butt

Love is no assignment for cowards.

— Ovid

Lies come from fear, from cowardice.

— Jenny Sanford

A cowardly love is full of regret

— School Rumble

You gain nothing by becoming cowards.

— Swami Vivekananda

The coward threatens when he is safe.

— Johann Von Goethe

“I’m ashamed of my cowardice.”

— Sansa Rayne

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

— Euripides

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Some might say the most hurt you can cause is through cowardice.”

— Marc Levy

“Don't Shoot! I'm Che. I'm worth more to you alive than dead!”

— Ernesto "Che" Guevara

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

— Cyril Connolly

Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

— Jean Baudrillard

Fear is not a sin in the taiga, but cowardice is [..].

— John Vaillant

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

— Daisaku Ikeda

I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems…

— Anne Frank

“I am terrified of heights, sharks, and spiders, so I am not into skydiving, surfing, or camping. I am the epitome of…

— Jarod Kintz

Giving your team cover for their cowardice is foolish. Give them a platform for bravery instead.

— Seth

Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.

— Charles Churchill

“There is a killer in every cowardly man, waiting for the right set of circumstances when the time has been drained of…

— M.D. Lachlan

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

— Samuel Johnson

“I've been patient, but where I'm concerned patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.”

— George L. Jackson

“Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is…

— Margaret Chase Smith

“Some Saian mountaineer Struts today with my shield. I threw it down by a bush and ran When the fighting got hot.…

— Archilochus

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such…

— Philip Kearny

Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo epitomizes the timidity, the…

— Frank Rich

“Ah, Mr. War, sir. It seems that owing to circumstances completely beyond my control, there's been a bit of a cock up…

— Chris Barrie as Arnold Rimmer on Red Dwarf

Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do…

— Frank Medlicott

“But as he stood at the brink of that decision, into the vacuum created by that shimmering lure of escape returned his…

— Mark Frost

“I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising…

— Richard Dawkins

After using the 'good offices' of UN diplomacy (economic sanctions and weapons inspections) to ensure that Iraq was brought to its knees,…

— Arundhati Roy

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

— Emily Post

“Fear is a relative term and so I can only measure my feelings at that time by what I had experienced in…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“After you have suffered great losses and known much pain, it is not cowardice to wish to live henceforth with a minimum…

— Dean Koontz