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Cowardice Quotes - Page 2

Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.

"Essais". Book by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 14, 1595.

Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.

Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.189, Tara Publishing

Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.138, Beacon Press

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.

Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.151, Lulu.com

You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself

Swami Vivekananda (1997). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.120, Beacon Press

Better it were not to live than to live a coward.

Sir Walter Raleigh, William Oldys, Thomas Birch (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The life of Sir Walter Ralegh, by William Oldys. The life of Sir Walter Ralegh, by Tho. Birch”, p.360

We are all born cowards.

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1424, Manonmani Publishers

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.402, Harvard University Press

The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.16, Random House