Cowardice Quotes
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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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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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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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.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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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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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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Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.
Confucius
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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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Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice – nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.
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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Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
George Jackson
