Best Cowardice Sayings
420 Cowardice quotes by 282 unique authors
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I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving, or not loving well, which is…
— Corey Stoll
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Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do not feel, they…
— Frank Medlicott
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Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.
— Thomas Hobbes
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Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It…
— Sigmund Freud
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When we renounce our dreams, we find peace and enjoy a brief period of tranquillity, but the dead dreams begin to rot inside us and…
— Paulo Coelho
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We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.
— Mark Twain
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It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its…
— Frederick Douglass
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Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain…
— Nelson Mandela
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Seek the truth in all fields, and in that search you will need at least three virtues: courage, zest and modesty. The ancients put that…
— Hugh B. Brown
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Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!
— John Brown
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For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.
— Henri Matisse
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I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder . . . Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice.
— Madeleine Albright
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If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man,…
— Jack Handey
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If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian| warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world,…
— Erwin Schrodinger
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Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.
— Theophrastus
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I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it.
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.
— Irving Layton
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A man who knows a thing, recognizes a given danger, and sees with his own eyes the possibility of a remedy, damned well has the…
— George Lincoln Rockwell
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Lies come from fear, from cowardice.
— Jenny Sanford
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The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the…
— Bill Klem
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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage....
— Hosea Ballou
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Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
— Epictetus
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Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The brave are always moral. Try to…
— Swami Vivekananda
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