Best Cowardice Wisdom
420 Cowardice quotes by 282 unique authors
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Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.
— Euripides
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It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would be always beating…
— Samuel Johnson
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When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
— Samuel Johnson
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Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.
— Norman Mailer
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We do not choose to be born.We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of our death. But within all…
— Joseph Epstein
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If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should…
— David Hume
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Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.
— Theophrastus
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In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking.
— Donald Rumsfeld
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I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be…
— Georges Bidault
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I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened of wearing a…
— Ben Kingsley
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Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo epitomizes the timidity, the cowardice of a…
— Frank Rich
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Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!
— Edmund Stoiber
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As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.
— Jack Kelly
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History teaches us no race, no people, no nation has ever been freed through cowardice, through cringing, through bowing and scraping, but all that has…
— Marcus Garvey
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I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.
— Will Rogers
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A fortress is of no use to cowards.
— Thiruvalluvar
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There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy.
— E. W. Howe
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Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror.
— E. W. Howe
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If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice.
— Mark Lawrence
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I would have to point out in the strongest terms the autocracy of the Liberal structure and the cowardice of its members. I have never…
— Pierre Trudeau
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Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
— Robert Frost
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
— Vincent Van Gogh
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