Best Cowardice Thoughts
420 Cowardice quotes by 282 unique authors
-
Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.
— Mahatma Gandhi
-
Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.
— Mahatma Gandhi
-
Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.
— Mahatma Gandhi
-
Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
-
No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies…
— Mahatma Gandhi
-
Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
— Michel de Montaigne
-
I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love.
— William Shakespeare
-
Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.
— Samuel Johnson
-
Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.
— John Donne
-
There was no room in God's army for the coward heart, no crown awaiting him who put mother or father, sister or brother, sweetheart or…
— James A. Baldwin
-
Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.
— Francois Mauriac
-
Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
-
If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white…
— Amiri Baraka
-
When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of…
— Naguib Mahfouz
-
Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it.
— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
-
A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
— Quintus Curtius Rufus
-
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
— Brooke Westcott
-
Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to…
— Soong May-ling
-
What if there are children who will suffer somehow because I failed to obey God? What if my cowardice costs even one child somewhere in…
— Richard Stearns
-
Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one to the use…
— Pablo Antonio Cuadra
-
We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
-
Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.
— Henry David Thoreau
-
It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.
— Eric Hoffer
-
It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought…
— William James
More Ways to Read Cowardice Quotes
Who Wrote These Cowardice Quotes
282 authors contributed a total of 420 Cowardice Quotes, led by these top contributors: