Cowardice Quotes - Page 3

• A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Bark, Bites, Cowardly

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book VII, 4, 13,

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• Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Strength, Struggle, Winning

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• Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

  Plutarch

  Life, Success, Courage

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• Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect non-violence is the highest bravery. Non-violent conduct is never demoralising; cowardice always is.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, Hate, Spring

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Lying, Literature, Valor

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• Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Courage, Brave, Desperate

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• At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Courage, Men, Bravery

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

  Theophrastus

  Superstitions, Faces

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• True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Lying, Valor, Rashness

  "Don Quixote de la Mancha".

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• If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Stupid, Optimism, Despair

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.80, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• Optimism is cowardice.

  Oswald Spengler

  Optimism

  Oswald Spengler (2016). “Routledge Revivals: Man and Technics (1932): A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life”, p.56, Routledge

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Courage, Imagination, Ability

  "A Farewell to Arms".

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• Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Courage, Desperate, Aggravated

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• There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

  Ayn Rand

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  "The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution". Book by Ayn Rand, p. 123, 1971.

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• They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sad, Death, Suicide

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Love, Fake People, Mirrors

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.65, Verso

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• The real hero is always a hero by mistake.

  Umberto Eco

  Real, Mistake, Hero

  Umberto Eco (2014). “Travels in Hyperreality”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.

  Epictetus

  Dread, Happens, Covetousness

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.151, Lulu.com

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• Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Horse, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.130, Harvard University Press

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• The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Life, Strength, Courage

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• Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Bully, Coward, Found

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.189, Tara Publishing

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• I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Peace, Hate, War

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

  Jerome Cady

  Yellow, Quitting, Fellows

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• The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Suffering, Atrocities, Reign

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.70

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• I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened of wearing a yellow star. It was fear, it was cowardice, I was.

  Ben Kingsley

  Stars, Yellow, Actors

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