Cowardice Quotes
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The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.
Charles M. Blow
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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.'
William Bennett
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Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.
Confucius
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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.
Aristotle
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Miguel de Cervantes
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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.
William Butler Yeats
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Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.
Jose Rizal
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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.
Adolf Hitler
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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.
Georges Bidault
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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.
Rollo May
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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.
Robert Frost
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Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
Robert Frost
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Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
George Jackson
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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!
Mikhail Bulgakov
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Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice – nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.
Mahatma Gandhi
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To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.
Confucius
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The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?
Mahatma Gandhi