Cowardice Quotes
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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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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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All doubt is cowardice - all trust is brave.
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
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Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.
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Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?
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Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God.
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All around me is cowardice and deceit.
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It is cowardice to commit suicide.
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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 is the most terrible of vices.
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The one thing you can count on in Hollywood - across the board - is cowardice.
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Cowardice, when done correctly, can be its own kind of bravery.
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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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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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Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.
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Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.
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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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Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.
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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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The thing that cowardice fears most is decision.
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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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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.
