Best Cowardice Proverbs
420 Cowardice quotes by 282 unique authors
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark…
— Billy Connolly
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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and…
— Clarence Darrow
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
— Umberto Eco
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Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
— Ernest Hemingway
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The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
— Jim Hightower
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Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
— Adolf Hitler
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When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
— Eric Hoffer
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There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that…
— Kurt Huber
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Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
— George Jackson
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When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
— Mickey Mantle
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
— Rollo May
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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
— Plutarch
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
— Ayn Rand
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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
— J D Salinger
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They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.
— Sivananda
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People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
— August Strindberg
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
— Randall Terry
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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
— Mark Twain
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Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
— Peter Ustinov
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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what…
— Charles Dickens
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