Cowardice Quotes
The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
Ballou, Hosea
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
Colton, Charles
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 because they are afraid to live.
Confucius
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
Cook, Eliza
The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
Foch, Marshal
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Frost, Robert
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Gandhi, Mohandas
Better far than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.
Hemingway, Ernest
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Hitler, Adolf
Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
Ikeda, Daisaku
Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.
Medlicott, Frank
Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do not feel, they call it being tactful. Cowardice would be a much better name.
Plutarch
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Rand, Ayn
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
Shaw, George Bernard
Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.
Twain, Mark
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
The coward only threatens when he is safe.
Wallace, Irving
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.