Cowardice Quotes - Page 17

• This world is not for cowards.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Coward, World, This World

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Work and Its Secret”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• The coward is an object to be pitied.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Coward, Objects

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4013, Manonmani Publishers

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• Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.

  Mitch Albom

  Confused, War, Men

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• Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Coward, Weakness, Sin

  Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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

  Jim Butcher

  Way, Wrong Things, Inaction

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1714, Penguin

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• Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Coward, Selfishness, Causes

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1424, Manonmani Publishers

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• Do not run away, it is cowardice.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Running, Coward, Running Away

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2607, Manonmani Publishers

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• It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.

  Eric Hoffer

  Needs, Rationalize

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate. I wonder, for it is hard for me to conceive how men who knew the word "I," could give it up and not know what they lost. But such has been the story, for I have lived in the City of the damned, and I know what horror men permitted to be brought upon them.

  Ayn Rand

  Fate, Men, Long Ago

  Ayn Rand (2012). “Study Guide: Anthem (Study Gudie and Book)”, p.109, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Janetty tried to dive through the window to escape, what an act of cowardice.

  Bobby Heenan

  Funny, Wwe, Window

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• [D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without a conscience a man may never be said to grow old. This is an age of very old young men.

  Hesketh Pearson

  Men, Names, Age

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• [I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid or merely because he lacks the instruments of violence, he is not truly nonviolent. This is why Gandhi often said that if cowardice is the only alternative to violence, it is better to fight.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Fighting, Coward, Doe

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• If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.

  Amiri Baraka

  Loss, Men, White Man

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• When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Country, Integrity, Believe

  Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Echoes of an Autobiography”, p.17, Anchor

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

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Slavery, Coercion, Servitude

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• Alec would have said he could have benefited from a bit more in the way of constructive cowardice.

  Cassandra Clare

  Way, Said, Constructive

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.545, Simon and Schuster

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• Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.

  Erica Jong

  Hurt, Believe, People

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 03, 2012

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• When would he realize that it wasn't his infidelity I couldn't bear, but his cowardice?

  Tatiana de Rosnay

  Infidelity, Bears, Realizing

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• What if there are children who will suffer somehow because I failed to obey God? What if my cowardice costs even one child somewhere in the world his or her life?

  Richard Stearns

  Children, What If, Suffering

  Richard Stearns (2009). “The Hole in Our Gospel: What does God expect of Us? The Answer that Changed my Life and Might Just Change the World”, p.49, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Procrastination, Men, Despair

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Soldier, Coward, Command

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4016, Manonmani Publishers

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• Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1902, Manonmani Publishers

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• Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

  Thomas Fuller

  Running, Fear, Bravery

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• If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for what it is, a servile weakness, a refuge in cowardice, and a willingness to follow, with credulity, people who are in the highest degree unscrupulous.

  Christopher Hitchens

  People, Religion, Degrees

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• Modern American politicians have the same cowardice about denying an equally bloodthirsty even sillier god, Jehovah.
  None of us would seriously consider the possibility that all the gods of Homer really exist... I think that all of us would say in regard to those gods that we were atheists. In regard to the Christian God, I should, I think, take exactly the same line.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Atheist, Thinking

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