34 Quotes on Cowardice

• If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

  Author: Francis Yockey

• To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

  Author: Irving Wallace

• Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

  Author: Peter Ustinov

• There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

  Author: Mark Twain

• Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

  Author: Theophrastus

• Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

  Author: Randall Terry

• Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.

  Author: Margaret Smith

• Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

  Author: Swami Sivananda

• There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

  Author: Ayn Rand

• Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

  Author: Plutarch

• The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

  Author: Rollo May

• 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 of these opinions generate hatred.

  Author: Niccolo Machiavelli

• God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

  Author: Joseph Lightfoot

• We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason.

  Author: Philip Kearny

• Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

  Author: Holbrook Jackson

• Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

  Author: George Jackson

• 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 dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.

  Author: Kurt Huber

• When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

  Author: Eric Hoffer

• Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

  Author: Adolf Hitler

• The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

  Author: Jim Hightower

• Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

  Author: Ernest Hemingway

• Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

  Author: Mohandas Gandhi

• Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

  Author: Robert Frost

• To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

  Author: Confucius

• At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

  Author: Edwin Chapin

• Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

  Author: Miguel Cervantes

• True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

  Author: Miguel Cervantes

• Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.

  Author: Jerome Cady

• Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

  Author: Christian Bovee

• Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

  Author: Jean Baudrillard

• Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

  Author: Hosea Ballou

• To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

  Author: Aristotle

• A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

  Author: Pietro Aretino

• The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

  Author: Robert Anthony

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