The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful. — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life, and in real life, I am not getting pecked to death by… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Girls look me up and down but never have anything say; funny how the words come out the moment I walk away... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Fear is a cold bastard. The only way to overcome it is to act—to take the first step and just move forward.” — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“Possession is not only when the devil plays hide and seek in your brain or poison your medula oblongata with negativity, but… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate,… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we… — Brooke Foss Westcott Copy Share Image
Courage is defined as: the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from… — Joshua Fernandez Copy Share Image
For those of you who may be unaware, [Michael] Boskin is the economist/weasel/fraud who helped to officially distort the CPI, making it… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
“What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from… — Plato Copy Share Image
It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“It will never be known what acts of cowardice have been committed for fear of not looking sufficiently progressive.” — Charles Péguy Copy Share Image
...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
The fear of living in this world again after that...I have only a shred of hope to sustain me. — Fruits Basket Copy Share Image
“in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“To stand at the very moment when all seems lost is the point of insanity for the coward, but it is the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. — Irving Wallace Copy Share Image
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The reason why most people don't reach their destination is that they are so afraid to fall that they open their parachute… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“A virtue that only causes havoc and unhappiness is worth nothing. You can call it virtue if you like. I call it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing and is nothing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it. — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder . . . Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
![“For those of you who may be unaware, [Michael] Boskin is the economist/weasel/fraud who helped to officially distort the CPI, making it more or less worthless as a measure of inflation. The Boskin Commission... was an act of cowardice. Rather than man up and say fix this, its broken, we can't…” quote by Barry Ritholtz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/221/barry-ritholtz-5065_broken_for-those-of-you-who-may-be-unaware-mich_2657603.jpg)
