Cowardice Quotes - Page 3

True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.

Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.

Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.

Fortune never helps the fainthearted.

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice!

Hanging a noose on my door reeks of cowardice and fear on many, many levels.

What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.

There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.

Despair swallows up cowardice.

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.

Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.

Bullies are always cowards.

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.

Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.

My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!

With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.

Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.

To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice. It is never a question of who is right but what is right.

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.