“Weakness can imitate strength if bound properly, just as cowardice can imitate heroism if given nowhere to flee.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened… — Ben Kingsley 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
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
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
Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“I have only in my life carried to an extreme what you have not dared to carry halfway, and what’s more, you… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. Launch it into… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Giving up because of obstacles is an act of cowardice, but giving up is not a cowarldy act when you give up… — John Ryan Violeta Copy Share Image
“Would a coward or a thief remain a coward or a thief, even if his memory slate was wiped clean? Or could… — Douglas E. Richards Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the tendency of the Americain iiuud seems to he very strongly against the enforcement of any rule which requires a person… — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
I would have to point out in the strongest terms the autocracy of the Liberal structure and the cowardice of its members.… — Pierre Trudeau 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
“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
“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
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
The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice. It is never a question of who is right but… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
You disappoint yourself more often by not doing things because of cowardice and temerity than you ever did by doing things that… — Fred Hollows 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot. — Eric Hoffer 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
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
“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
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
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
