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Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice. -- J. K. Rowling
Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads. -- Kevin Patterson
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
Blood has an oder faint but distinct, of conceit and modesty, of courage and cowardice, of charity and greed, of faith and doubt, in short the fragrance of what we might have been and the smell of what we are... -- Dean Koontz
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. -- Plutarch
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. -- Jean Baudrillard
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 enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage -- Hosea Ballou
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. -- Hosea Ballou
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.... -- Hosea Ballou
True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness. -- Miguel de Cervantes
The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage. -- Charles M. Blow
Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage. -- Duke of Wellington
Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice. -- John McCain
Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope. -- Merle Shain
Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage. -- Philip Sidney
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity -- Rollo May
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. -- Rollo May
In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence. -- Samuel Johnson
Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men. -- John Steinbeck
Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it. -- George D. Prentice
Apparent confusion is a product of good order; apparent cowardice, of courage; apparent weakness, of strength. -- Sun Tzu
Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information. -- Peter Ustinov
Order or disorder depends on organisation; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on dispositions. -- Sun Tzu
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Vice never leads to virtue. Hate never promotes love. Cowardice never gives courage. Doubt never inspires faith. -- Thomas S. Monson
There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents. -- Ivy Compton-Burnett
Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
... the courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side'... -- Marcel Proust
No one is born to courage, Juliet. Courage is a habit you develop after cowardice has gotten you nothing. -- Sabrina Jeffries
The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the "other side. -- Marcel Proust
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. -- Jim Hightower
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood. -- Chrysippus
We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on. -- Swami Vivekananda
Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others. -- Francois Mauriac
It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune. -- Michel de Montaigne
Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice. -- William Faulkner

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