It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and…

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

— Duke of Wellington

“We are, I am, you are by cowardice or courage the one who find our way back to this scene carrying a knife, a…

— Adrienne Rich

“Laziness is almost as compelling as life. The new farce you're having to play crushes you with its banality, and all in all it…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

— Jean Baudrillard

“And I could test myself - my own courage - with it, too, because when the doors at either end of the secret staircase…

— Lois Lowry

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

— Sun Tzu

Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.

— Francois Mauriac

“I despaired for a while during the rail journey-how did one deal with such ingrained cowardice? Then I realized that there is no such…

— Sherry Thomas

“If we promoted justice and charity among men, we should be playing directly into the Enemy's hands; but if we guide them to the…

— C.S. Lewis

It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself…

— Michel de Montaigne

The biggest coward is a man who awakens a womans love with no intention of loving her.

— Anonymous

No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“People run away from the love game because they know they won't win the race.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Is there cowardice with the acknowledgement of fear?

— Markus Zusak

“To stand at the very moment when all seems lost is the point of insanity for the coward, but it is the home of…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough