Causes Quote by Swami Vivekananda

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

— Jose Rizal

Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.

— Michel de Montaigne

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

— Ernest Hemingway

Cowardice is the most self-harming trait of a nation.

— Mariana Fulger

It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.

— Marjane Satrapi

Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.

— Duke Ellington

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.

— Ayn Rand

There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with…

— Roscoe Snowden

“What we call cowardice is often just another name for being taken by surprise, and courage is seldom any better than simply being well…

— Gregory David Roberts

All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

— Mark Twain

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for…

— William Hazlitt