Cowardice Quotes
420 quotes by 288 authors
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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
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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
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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
— Jean Baudrillard
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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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
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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
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Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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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
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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
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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
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The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
— Charles Lamb
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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
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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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
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To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
— Irving Wallace
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Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.
— Cyril Connolly
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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
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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
— Michel de Montaigne
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They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
— David McCullough
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