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Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don't have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. — Jim Hightower

Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken. — Norman Mailer

No one is born to courage, Juliet. Courage is a habit you develop after cowardice has gotten you nothing. — Sabrina Jeffries

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage. — Philip Sidney

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. — Hosea Ballou

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

The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice ... — George R R Martin

Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice. — J.K. Rowling

Frowning, Shiloh forced herself to look up at him. Roan deserved her courage, not her cowardice. "You wanted to kiss me."
"I still do. — Lindsay McKenna

Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it. — George D. Prentice

A coward's courage is in his tongue. — Edmund Burke

Order or disorder depends on organisation; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on dispositions. — Sun Tzu

One needs to be either more brave or more good, because if courage is lacking goodness can substitute, while cowardice is the deficiency of both. — Neel Burton

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough. — Thomas Fuller

The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage. — Charles M. Blow

There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry. — Criss Jami

Apparent confusion is a product of good order; apparent cowardice, of courage; apparent weakness, of strength. — Sun Tzu

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice. — John McCain

Quiet courage is better than loud cowardice.
Quiet victory is better than loud defeat. — Matshona Dhliwayo

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

Sometimes, courage is really just cowardice. Sometimes the bravest thing is to let go. — Miguel Syjuco

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

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

Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy. — E.W. Howe

You want to run. I understand that. I do believe you almost found the courage just then, until cowardice unmanned you. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What we call cowardice is often just another name for being taken by surprise, and courage is seldom any better than simply being well prepared. — Gregory David Roberts

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Men's courage is reflected when he snaps at a women. — Pushpa Rana

Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice. — Norman Mailer

The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side' ... — Marcel Proust

Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information. — Peter Ustinov

Life is too short to cower. — Claire Cross

True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness. — 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

Like all bullies and marauders, Gos was a coward at heart — L. Frank Baum

There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood. — Chrysippus

Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred. — John Donne

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

Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise. — Mason Cooley

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

Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men. — John Steinbeck

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. — Miguel De Cervantes

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

We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive. — Charles Peguy

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

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence. — Samuel Johnson

The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The irony is, nothing is more frightening than being frightened. — Neel Burton

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice ... it is conformity. — Earl Nightingale

Man is weak. Purpose makes him strong. — Raheel Farooq

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage. — Duke Of Wellington

All doubt is cowardice - all trust is brave. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

A bull that allows a he goat to deter it from moving forward is nothing but a mere he goat — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A coward is a man who'd rather live dead than die alive — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Only cowards cave. The brave get assassinated. — Donna Lynn Hope

It is what you do about the fear you feel that sets you apart, to be a coward or a courageous person. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe