That all men would be cowards if they dare, Some men we know have courage to declare. — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“My dear Mrs. Grimstone, sometimes cowardice is merely another word for common sense.” — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
I love sleeping. Because life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Suicide is cowardice. Running away from your problems when there are options. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to… — David Dudley Field II Copy Share Image
We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive. — Charles Peguy Copy Share Image
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
For my part, I may speak it to my shame, I have a truant been to chivalry; And so I hear he… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than… — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Since cowardice must occur at a time and place where an enemy either has already appeared or may yet turn up, servicemen… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The brave are always… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Courage, however, may also be explained as a readiness to meet ills that threaten at the moment, in order to avoid greater… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“I think if you are a musician, and artist, you have to have a certain courage. Repeating yourself or photocopying other's art...… — Thomas Gabriel Fischer Copy Share Image
“The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The heroes in paganism correspond exactly to the saints in popery, and holy dervises in MAHOMETANISM. The place of, HERCULES, THESEUS, HECTOR,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Playing the part of a charitable soul was only for those who were afraid of taking a stand in life. It is… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The acknowledgement of White cowardice has driven literally tens of millions of White Americans to try to escape it by undergoing a… — Frazier Glenn Miller Copy Share Image
“Nesta only lifted her chin. 'I...' I'd never seen her stumble for words. 'I do not want to be remembered as a… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long… — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Her cowardice had been re-branded as self-preservation, and she was grateful for it.” — Jayne Lockwood Copy Share Image
When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Bravery escapes more dangers than cowardice. — Joseph Alexandre Pierre de Segur, Viscount of Segur Copy Share Image