Cowardice Quotes · Page 9

Fear is not a sin in the taiga, but cowardice is [..].

— John Vaillant

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.

— Euripides

Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Don't Shoot! I'm Che. I'm worth more to you alive than dead!”

— Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“Some might say the most hurt you can cause is through cowardice.”

— Marc Levy

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

— Cyril Connolly

Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?

— Mahatma Gandhi

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.

— John Wilmot

Only cowards lie, the daring ones never stop speaking truth as they are worth facing the consequences of truth.

— Senora Roy

But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?

— Markus Zusak

For a long time I always thought that I am a confident guy. At that moment, I realized that I was really…

— You Are The Apple Of My Eyes

Order or disorder depends on organisation and direction; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on tactical dispositions.

— Sun Tzu

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

— Radclyffe Hall

There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.

— Leos Carax

It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid…

— Michel de Montaigne

I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of…

— Bertrand Russell

“The fatal combination of Republican craveness and Democratic cowardice wasn't having an awful effect solely on the U.S. economy. It was proving…

— Howard Dean

“It was as though, so long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting…

— William Faulkner

Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled…

— Rollo May

“Cowardice of this degree is, I know, uncommon. Many people would have to hang by their teeth from a frayed cord suspended…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“All men have a measure of cowardice in them. I learned that love of one's mates can overcome your fears. I learned…

— Leon Uris

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If commissars in Soviet Russia agreed to subordinate themselves to state power, they could at least plead fear in extenuation. Their counterparts…

— Noam Chomsky

“You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty…

— Charles Mackay

“Revolution thus ran its course from city to city, and the places which it arrived at last, from having heard what had…

— Thucydides

Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I once knew a man who was heir to the throne of a great kingdom, he lived as a ranger and fought…

— C. JoyBell C

Calculating people are contemptable. The reason for this is that calculation deals with loss and gain, and the loss and gain mind…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that…

— H. L. Mencken

“Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external…

— Immanuel Kant

Now what is it moves our very heart, and sickens us so much as cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this:…

— John Henry Newman

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

— Edward Everett

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

— Mark Twain

Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it.

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

— Mark Twain

“Say 'No' when you must. It is not cowardice.”

— Ibn Jeem

To cowards what advice shall I offer? - nothing whatsoever have I to say.

— Swami Vivekananda

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.

— Tadashi Yanai