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Cowardice Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or…
- In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
- Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the…
- Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in…
- Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.
- 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…
- When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
More Cowardice Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. — Jean Baudrillard
- Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. — Miguel de Cervantes
- At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. — Mahatma Gandhi
- The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we are constantly… — Chogyam Trungpa
- You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty… — Sun Tzu
- The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice. — Charles Lamb