“What we call cowardice is often just another name for being taken by surprise, and courage is seldom any better than simply… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
A curse on him who begins in gentleness. He shall finish in insipidity and cowardice, and shall never step foot in the… — Andre Trocme Copy Share Image
Often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It hurts to love someone and unrequited, but whats most painful is to never find the courage to tell that person. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you see me walking with someone else, it's not because I love him, it's because you're not brave enough to walk… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It wasn't courage that motivated this casual, impersonal manner of treating so much pain; it was a special brand of cowardice...forcing others… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Each of us has his cowardice. Each of us is afraid to lose, afraid to die. But hanging back is the way… — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
“A crust of lard, habit, and cowardice envelops the soul; no matter what it craves from the depths of its prison, the… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable… — William Francis Butler Copy Share Image
There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for… — Kurt Huber Copy Share Image
How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I understood about fear. And I knew better than anyone in that room what Mouse was capable of. But still I had… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. — Brooke Westcott Copy Share Image
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear…” — Four from Divergent Copy Share Image
There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or… — Jim Mattis Copy Share Image
“(…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Leaving others alone is a sign of cowardice, whether you are involved in a war or in a relationship.” — Pratik Akkawar Copy Share Image
“So answer me, are you merely a cowardly Moses, pointing the way to the Promised Land but poisoned by doubt and so… — Tony Vigorito Copy Share Image
Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right? — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The lack of will to do what is right is tantamount to moral cowardice and a doubling of victim trauma. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You can't throw kindling on a fire and deny you kept it burning. And right now, cowardice is that kindling.” — Ilana Waters Copy Share Image
Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong. — Shailer Mathews Copy Share Image
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Everyone appears to be courageous until bad weathers arrive, and then we know the true leaders.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“I'm a fucking coward." "Maybe." Craw jerked his thumb over his shoulder at Whirrun's corpse. "There's a hero. Tell me who's better… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit. — Jerome Cady Copy Share Image
People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they dont deserve them, or that theyll be unable… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired;… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
