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To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice.
— David Dudley Field II
That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.
— Andre Dubus
When in doubt chicken out.
— Robin Jones Gunn
A man don't need to act tough if he is. Men that put on a show are spineless more often than not.
— Eric Powell
What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.
— Graham Greene
If you are really my children, you will fear nothing, stop at nothing. You will be like lions. We must rouse India and the whole world. No cowardice.
— Swami Vivekananda
No one is born to courage, Juliet. Courage is a habit you develop after cowardice has gotten you nothing.
— Sabrina Jeffries
All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
— Hosea Ballou
Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.
— J.K. Rowling
I wanted to shout down to him, to warn him that he was giving flowers to a monster, but I did not.
— Neil Gaiman
She opened her eyes- closing them was cowardice, and the Carstairs were not cowards.
— Cassandra Clare
A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.
— T.F. Hodge
Don't Shoot! I'm Che. I'm worth more to you alive than dead!
— Ernesto Che Guevara
Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don't be over-joyed to the state of oblivion, lest the enemy poison your meal.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
All too often cowardice wears the habit of wounded pride.' Anomander
— Steven Erikson
Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the stronger sex ...
— Gustave Flaubert
Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.
— Samuel Johnson
To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
— Rollo May
Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.
— Michel De Montaigne
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
— Andre Gide
Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.
— Mahatma Gandhi
My dear Mrs. Grimstone, sometimes cowardice is merely another word for common sense.
— Lauren Willig
It is bad to love life if one loves it like a coward.
— Jean Guehenno
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Lies come from fear, from cowardice.
— Jenny Sanford
This world is not for cowards.
— Swami Vivekananda
My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death.
— Sylvia Plath
Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
— Sophocles
Cowards never dare to love.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.
— Epictetus
Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life
— Veronica Roth
Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.
— Richard Harris
You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself
— Swami Vivekananda
Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Cowardice is no virtue.
— Swami Vivekananda
The most foolish description of the young is that they are rebellious. The truth is that they are a fellowship of cowards.
— Manu Joseph
A virtue that only causes havoc and unhappiness is worth nothing. You can call it virtue if you like. I call it cowardice.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
— Tadashi Yanai
Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.
— John Osborne
Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.
— Hillary Clinton
They must be cool but determined ... he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
— David McCullough
In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.
— Charles Dickens
Men can be pitiless towards a woman whose body has eluded them, particularly if this is thanks to their own cowardice.
— Andrei Makine
What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too.
— Clifford Geertz
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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
Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.
— Holbrook Jackson
Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.
— John Donne
Emperors are not made from cowards; they are made from those who take great risk where there stands to be even greater gain.
— A.J. Darkholme
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
— Baron De Montesquieu
We are all born cowards.
— Swami Vivekananda
Procrastination is the junior enemy of action; cowardice, the senior.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.
— Gustave Flaubert
When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
— Samuel Johnson
Hm ... yes, all is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave.
— Swami Vivekananda
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
— George Jackson
Like all bullies and marauders, Gos was a coward at heart
— L. Frank Baum
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Do not be afraid. Because if you let these fears consume you, you'll most likely fail even before everything else starts.
— Veronica Mist
Cowardice is the greatest sin.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
Conceit is to be dreaded, but so is cowardice
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A coward is a man who'd rather live dead than die alive
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
— Michel De Montaigne
In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking.
— Donald Rumsfeld
For whoever doesn't overcome the cowardice inside themselves will die of fear to the end of their days. The
— Andrzej Sapkowski
He would have us without carefulness, without doubt, without cowardice. Our Master does not think so lightly of our unbelief as we do.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.
— Samuel Johnson
We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.
— Veronica Roth
I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder ... Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice.
— Madeleine Albright
When would he realize that it wasn't his infidelity I couldn't bear, but his cowardice?
— Tatiana De Rosnay
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
At bottom the character of M. Bonacieux was one of profound selfishness mixed with sordid avarice, the whole seasoned with extreme cowardice.
— Alexandre Dumas
May we know fear, but may we always refuse to court cowardice.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Explanations are for cowards.
— J. Ross Clara
All of us are cowards at some time in our lives...
— Dean Koontz