cowardice quotes

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or giving up simply as forms of cowardice.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.