Cowardice Quotes

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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them… — Pietro Aretino
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for… — Aristotle
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. — Jean Baudrillard
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. — Miguel de Cervantes
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. — Mahatma Gandhi
The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we are constantly recreating our basic… — Chogyam Trungpa
You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before… — Niccolo Machiavelli
There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can… — Sun Tzu
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice. — Charles Lamb
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear… — Epictetus
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome. — Charles Caleb Colton
Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. — Irving Wallace
Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice. — Cyril Connolly
From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It… — Mark Helprin
Cowardice is the mother of cruelty. — Michel de Montaigne
They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice. — David McCullough

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