Cowardice Quotes - Page 5

Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong.

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.

Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.

I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice.

If commissars in Soviet Russia agreed to subordinate themselves to state power, they could at least plead fear in extenuation. Their counterparts in more free and open societies can plead only cowardice.

He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure.

True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.

It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope.

Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it.

Is there cowardice with the acknowledgement of fear?

But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?

If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice.

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence

Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God.

For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion.

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.

Bravery escapes more dangers than cowardice.

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

Lies come from fear, from cowardice.

Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it.