Cowardice Quote by Charles Caleb Colton Download Open image “That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.” — Charles Caleb Colton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cowardice Incorrigible Love Overcoming Power
All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to… — Georges Bidault Copy Share Image
The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are. — Ludwig Borne Copy Share Image
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice… Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without… — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
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… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
“To stand at the very moment when all seems lost is the point of insanity for the coward, but it is the home of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The biggest obstacles to our progress exist within our own lives in the form of cowardice and the tendency to give up. Breaking through… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“I once knew a man who was heir to the throne of a great kingdom, he lived as a ranger and fought his destiny to sit on a throne but in his blood he was a king. I also knew a man who was the king of a small kingdom, it was very small and his throne very humble but… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share
Man alone mesures time. And because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. Today, wrapped in the complacent armor of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal pricks of day by day brush one lightly and are soon forgotten,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share
Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“People run away from the love game because they know they won't win the race.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image