Cowardice Quotes - Page 2

• Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

  Hosea Ballou

  Courage, Truth, Falsehood

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• Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!

  Edmund Stoiber

  Vanity, Political, Berlin

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• The thing that cowardice fears most is decision

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Decision

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• Lying's a certain mark of cowardice.

  Thomas Southerne

  Lying, Mark, Certain

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1792). “British Theatre: Isabella, or, The fatal marriage”, p.104

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• A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

  Mickey Mantle

  Teamwork, Sports, Baseball

  Mickey Mantle (1964). “The Quality of Courage”, p.90, U of Nebraska Press

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• Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

  Brooke Westcott

  Hero, Eye, Men

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• When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fashion, Strong, Numbers

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

  Clarence Darrow

  Ideas, Alive, Immortal Life

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• Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

  Adolf Hitler

  Stupid, Expression, Humanitarian

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• God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Giving, Spirit

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• Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

  Jim Hightower

  Flow, Conformity, Fishes

  Jim Hightower (2004). “Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country and It's Time to Take It Back”, p.114, Penguin

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• The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Soulmate, Self Esteem

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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

  Law, Justice, Cloaks

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• Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Fear, Coward

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.

  William Hazlitt

  Valor, Prudence, Happens

  William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1902). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics”

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• We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

  Mark Twain

  Individuality, Principles, Protection

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.375, Courier Corporation

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• Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.

  Frank Herbert

  Children, Teaching, Law

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.330, Penguin

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

  Mark Twain

  Fear, Halloween, Temptation

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 36

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• Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

  Sivananda

  Spiritual, Humility, Weakness

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• None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Fear, Coward

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• 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.

  Aristotle

  Suicide, Running, Suicidal

  Nicomachean Ethics 3

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• I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Thinking, Mind, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Credit, Gains

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.321, Harvard University Press

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• A fortress is of no use to cowards.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Coward, Use, Fortresses

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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

  Depth, Way, I Realized

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