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Cowardice Quotes

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

Authors on Cowardice Quotes: Mahatma Gandhi Swami Vivekananda Michel de Montaigne Veronica Roth Miguel de Cervantes Mikhail Bulgakov Samuel Johnson Confucius Martin Luther King, Jr. Eric Hoffer Markus Zusak William Hazlitt Ernest Hemingway Theophrastus Thiruvalluvar John Buchan Brenda Ueland George Orwell Douglas Adams Napoleon Bonaparte Tadashi Yanai Jerome Cady Francois de La Rochefoucauld Evan Esar Ayaan Hirsi Ali Friedrich Nietzsche Charles Darwin Nathaniel Hawthorne Baron de Montesquieu Robert Ardrey Thomas Southerne John Donne Albert Camus
2.
Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.
Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.
Mikhail Bulgakov

4.
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.
Fred Hollows

5.
Optimism is cowardice.
Oswald Spengler

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

7.
Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali

8.
The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.
Jose Rizal

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Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.
Adolf Hitler

10.
Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
Jim Hightower

11.
The thing that cowardice fears most is decision
Soren Kierkegaard

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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

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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.
Kurt Huber

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

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

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All around me is cowardice and deceit.
Nicholas II of Russia

18.
It was the cowards who died many times before their death.
Mahatma Gandhi

19.
All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.
Ernest Hemingway

20.
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway

21.
The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.
Charles M. Blow

22.
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.
Anne Frank

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

24.
Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

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

27.
Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
Billy Connolly

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Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.
Mahatma Gandhi

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Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.
Richard Harris

30.
A coward's courage is in his tongue.
Edmund Burke

31.
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
Christian Nestell Bovee

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Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.
Rudyard Kipling

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Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

35.
I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.
Veronica Roth

36.
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
Andre Gide

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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Miguel de Cervantes

38.
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
Hosea Ballou

39.
Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.
Epictetus

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Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?
William Morley Punshon

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God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.
Georges Bidault

43.
The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

45.
Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic.
Russell D. Moore

46.
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
Robert Frost

47.
Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
Peter Ustinov

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Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.
Duke of Wellington

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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

50.
Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.
Confucius