Cowardice Quotes
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The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.
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Knowledge! What does that mean? Your knowledge is nothing but cowardice. No, really, that's all it is. You just want to put a little wall around infinity. And you're afraid to look on the other side of that wall.
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True courage is mixed with circumspection, the kind of healthy skepticism that asks, 'Is this the best way to do this?' True cowardice is marked by chronic skepticism, which always says, 'It can't be done.'
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
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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.
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Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
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Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.
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Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.
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I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.
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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
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Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.
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Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.
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Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.
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Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice!
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Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.
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Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
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Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice – nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.
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If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.
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Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.
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Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
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Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?
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Cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.
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You are less majestically neutral than cloaking your cowardice in principle.
