Cowardice Quotes
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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All doubt is cowardice - all trust is brave.
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Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.
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You are less majestically neutral than cloaking your cowardice in principle.
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The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.
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Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle, while they urge the sacrificing of others, even to the death, when they trespass against us? Is it blindness, or is it an insance inconsistency, which makes them regard as most admirable the bearing of evil for the benefit of others, while they lavish admiration on those who, out of revenge, inflict great evils in return for small ones suffered? Surely our barbarian code of right needs revision, and our barbarian standard of honour should be somewhat changed.
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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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The one thing you can count on in Hollywood - across the board - is cowardice.
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All around me is cowardice and deceit.
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To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice.
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Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God.
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It is cowardice to commit suicide.
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Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.
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Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.
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Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.
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Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.
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There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.
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Nonconformity is an empty goal, and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence to it. Indeed, it is often a mask for cowardice, and few are more pathetic than those who flaunt outer differences to expiate their inner surrender.
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Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.
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So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.
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Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.
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The thing that cowardice fears most is decision.
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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.
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Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.
