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Cowardice Quotes - Page 4

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.51, Penguin

It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.

Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.77, Harper Collins

The one thing you can count on in Hollywood - across the board - is cowardice.

"Give it up for Sean Penn" by James Kaplan, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2001.

Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.

Plutarch (2012). “Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

Lying's a certain mark of cowardice.

John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1792). “British Theatre: Isabella, or, The fatal marriage”, p.104

My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death.

Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.78, Hamilton Books

This world is not for cowards.

Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Work and Its Secret”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

faint heart never won fair lady

Patricia Cabot, Meg Cabot (2015). “Where Roses Grow Wild”, p.176, Macmillan

For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

Marcus Tullius Cicero (1853). “The treatises of M.T. Cicero on the nature of the gods [tr. by T.Francklin]; on divination; on fate; on the republic; on the laws; and on standing for the consulship, tr. chiefly by the ed. C.D.Yonge [and F.Barham].”, p.420

When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot.

"First Things, Last Things". Book by Eric Hoffer. Chapter 8: "Thoughts on the Present", 1971.

Cowardice is no virtue.

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2044, Manonmani Publishers

The coward is an object to be pitied.

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4013, Manonmani Publishers

To cowards what advice shall I offer? - nothing whatsoever have I to say.

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3943, Manonmani Publishers