Cowardice Quotes - Page 16

• Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.

  Blaise Pascal

  God, Bravery, Bravado

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• Fortune never helps the fainthearted.

  Sophocles

  Helping, Fortune

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• This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

  Honore de Balzac

  Work, Pride, Mind

  "A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

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• The coward wants resolution, which the brave man can do without. He recognizes no faith above a creed, thinking this straw by which he is moored does him good service, because his sheet anchor does not drag.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Faith, Men, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau, Bradford Torrey, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “Cape Cod and Miscellanies”

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• Bravery escapes more dangers than cowardice.

  Joseph Alexandre Pierre de Segur, Viscount of Segur

  Bravery, Danger

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• To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

  Simone Weil

  Solitude, Wish, Virtue

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.67, Psychology Press

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• Lieutenant al-Kaseasbeh's dedication, courage and service to his country and family represent universal human values that stand in opposition to the cowardice and depravity of ISIL, which has been so broadly rejected around the globe.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Dedication, Isil

  "Obama, Jordanian king vow to continue campaign against ISIS". www.foxnews.com. February 4, 2015.

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Bravery, Unworthy, Nationalism

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Force, Threat

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Together, Possession, Ill

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.92, A&C Black

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• It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Weakness, Denial

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.153, Penguin Books India

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• To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Speak Less, Pay

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.614, Delphi Classics

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• Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Belief, Belief In God

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• Lion is a beautiful creature. It's a wonderful creature. But it's easy outrage. And I also believe that this kind of outrage is a consequence of a moral cowardice in the face of other evil, that you transfer your impotence about other - in other arenas to this, because you know that people will agree with you that this is really bad, but there are serious outrages out there that are bigger than a lion.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Beautiful, Believe, People

  "Hollywood weighs in on Iran nuclear deal". "The Five" with Greg Gutfeld, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Julie Roginsky, Eric Bolling and Dana Perino, www.foxnews.com. July 29, 2015.

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• But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him we owe the Brasidas, the Dion, the Epaminodas, the Scipio of old, and I must think we are more deeply indebted to him than to all the ancient writers. Each of his "Lives" is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists. A wild courage, a Stoicism not of the schools, but of the blood, shines in every anecdote, and had given that book immense fame.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Book, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.281, Modern Library

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• All around me is cowardice and deceit.

  Nicholas II of Russia

  Deceit

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• Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Envy

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• Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Father, Men, Bravery

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.255

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• If you would learn to speak all tongues and conform to the customs of all nations, if you would travel farther than all travellers, be naturalized in all climes, and cause the Sphinx to dash her head against a stone, even obey the precept of the old philosopher, and Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve. Only the defeated and deserters go to the wars, cowards that run away and enlist.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, War, Eye

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.313, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed to let it influence him in his duties. Somehow, the truths that determine everything else about his existence are not allowed to influence how he conducts himself in public life. Not only that, his principles are usually considered so personal that the public is not even allowed to know for certain what they are. This passes for noble statecraft in our time. It was once thought cowardice.

  Stephen Mansfield

  Religious, Leader, Principles

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• Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.

  John Donne

  Courage, Despair, Valour

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• Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Differences, Deceit

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• All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fashion, Government, Fake

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• To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.)

  Fernando Pessoa

  Betrayal, Love Is, Important

  Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

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• Is there cowardice with the acknowledgement of fear?

  Markus Zusak

  Acknowledgement

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