Best Cowardice Words
420 Cowardice quotes by 282 unique authors
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You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself
— Swami Vivekananda
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God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally…
— Lord Chesterfield
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To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.
— Robert Ardrey
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The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.
— Pope Pius X
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In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
— Samuel Johnson
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For peace, with justice and honor, is the fairest and most profitable of possessions, but with disgrace and shameful cowardice, it is the most infamous…
— Polybius
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The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed…
— Jesse Jackson
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Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Now what is it moves our very heart, and sickens us so much as cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this: first, that they…
— John Henry Newman
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I often say to people that producing is the best paid form of cowardice. When you produce things you almost always get credit, if it's…
— Brian Eno
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The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.
— Jose Rizal
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Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.
— Plato
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true…
— Erica Jong
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Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.
— Jerome Cady
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You disappoint yourself more often by not doing things because of cowardice and temerity than you ever did by doing things that turn out to…
— Fred Hollows
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Each of us has his cowardice. Each of us is afraid to lose, afraid to die. But hanging back is the way to remain a…
— Mas Oyama
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How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?
— Michael Herr
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Vice never leads to virtue. Hate never promotes love. Cowardice never gives courage. Doubt never inspires faith.
— Thomas S. Monson
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True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment-are all the blackest of black lies. On the…
— Emily Post
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Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called…
— Abraham Maslow
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Calculating people are contemptable. The reason for this is that calculation deals with loss and gain, and the loss and gain mind never stops. Death…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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The thing that cowardice fears most is decision
— Soren Kierkegaard
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