Cowardice Quotes

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

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

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.

Optimism is cowardice.

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

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

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

Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

The thing that cowardice fears most is decision

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

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

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.

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

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

All around me is cowardice and deceit.

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

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

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

The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.

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.

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

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

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

Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.

Politically correct is the language of cowardice.

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

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

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

A coward's courage is in his tongue.

I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

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

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.

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

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

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.

Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic.

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

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

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

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

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

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

True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.