Cowardice Quotes

The power of evil men lives on the cowardice of the good.

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

You disappoint yourself more often by not doing things because of cowardice and temerity than you ever did by doing things that turn out to be wrong.

Optimism is cowardice.

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!

Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.

The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

The thing that cowardice fears most is decision

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood.

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.

To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.

We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

All around me is cowardice and deceit.

It was the cowards who died many times before their death.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.

I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.

Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.

A coward's courage is in his tongue.

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.