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Cowardice, the dread of what will happen. -- Epictetus
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice. -- George Jackson
Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural. -- Theophrastus
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. -- Jim Hightower
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. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
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
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. -- Ernest Hemingway
Optimism is cowardice. -- Oswald Spengler
Cowardice is no virtue. -- Swami Vivekananda
Cowardice is the greatest sin. -- Mikhail Bulgakov
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.... -- Hosea Ballou
Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Cowardice is the mother of cruelty. -- Michel de Montaigne
Cowardice is the most terrible of vices. -- Mikhail Bulgakov
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
God did not give you the spirit of cowardice. -- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life -- Veronica Roth
Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame. -- Jose Rizal
Cowardice, when done correctly, can be its own kind of bravery. -- Paul Neilan
Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. -- Rollo May
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers. -- Sivananda
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. -- Ayn Rand
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves. -- Samuel Johnson
Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice. -- Randall Terry
Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information. -- Peter Ustinov
Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right? -- William Morley Punshon
There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents. -- Ivy Compton-Burnett
If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them? -- Francis Parker Yockey
Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor. -- William Hazlitt
Vice never leads to virtue. Hate never promotes love. Cowardice never gives courage. Doubt never inspires faith. -- Thomas S. Monson
Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk -- Margaret Chase Smith
Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. -- Plutarch
I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year. -- James Callis
Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit. -- Jerome Cady
To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. -- Irving Wallace
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. -- Jean Baudrillard
Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen. -- Epictetus
Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice! -- Mikhail Bulgakov
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
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
You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice? -- Peter De Vries
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
You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before crimes...and patient to the point of martyrdom before all the violences of bold despotism. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
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 this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire. -- Ernest Hemingway
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. -- Hosea Ballou
Humor is the most engaging cowardice. -- Robert Frost
Fear has its use but cowardice has none. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. -- Miguel de Cervantes
The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. -- Robert Anthony
Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice. -- Hillary Clinton
To see the right and not to do it is cowardice. -- Confucius
Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice. -- Holbrook Jackson
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. -- Mark Twain
Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers. -- Sivananda
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it. -- Leos Carax
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. -- Irving Wallace
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. -- Pietro Aretino
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma. -- Oriana Fallaci
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
Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time. -- Billy Connolly
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
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men -- Abraham Lincoln
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity -- Rollo May
If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward -- Jack Handy
Survival feels like cowardice. -- Ann Aguirre
Despair swallows up cowardice. -- William Hazlitt
Compromise does not mean cowardice. -- John F. Kennedy
Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice. -- Adolf Hitler
Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage -- Hosea Ballou
Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice. -- Edward Everett
Bravery escapes more dangers than cowardice. -- Joseph Alexandre Pierre de Segur, Viscount of Segur
Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. -- Samuel Johnson
Lying's a certain mark of cowardice. -- Thomas Southerne
Lies come from fear, from cowardice. -- Jenny Sanford
It is cowardice to commit suicide. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts -- William Shakespeare
Politically correct is the language of cowardice. -- Billy Connolly
Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice. -- Tadashi Yanai
Pacifism is a virtue indistinguishable from cowardice. -- Brent Weeks
The greatest giver of alms is cowardice. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Pacifism is a virtue indisguishable from cowardice. -- Brent Weeks
Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred. -- John Donne
Fear breeds cowardice, and cowardice compels bravery. -- Ogwo David Emenike
To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Do not run away, it is cowardice. -- Swami Vivekananda
All around me is cowardice and deceit. -- Nicholas II of Russia
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice. -- Andre Gide
Fear has its uses but cowardice has none. -- Anne McCaffrey
It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice. -- Eric Hoffer
The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The thing that cowardice fears most is decision -- Soren Kierkegaard
Is there cowardice with the acknowledgement of fear? -- Markus Zusak
Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice. -- Adolf Hitler
Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice. -- Rollo May
Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy. -- E. W. Howe
All doubt is cowardice - all trust is brave. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death. -- Sylvia Plath
Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice. -- J. K. Rowling
Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin. -- Swami Vivekananda
True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved. -- Ernest Hemingway
I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity. -- Veronica Roth
Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme. -- Daniel Defoe
Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it. -- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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