Quotes About Cowardice

There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.

Ah, the people. My countrymen, my fellow citizens, my brothers. Mind you, some of them are all right, when you get to know them. But a lot of them aren't; and here's a funny thing, because when you mix them together, the ones that are all right and the ones that aren't, as often as not the resulting blend is far worse than the sum of its parts. Greedier, more cowardly, more stupid.

Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps.

In order to discredit faith and seduce believers, Kant does not hesitate to appeal to pride or vanity: whoever does not rely on reason alone is a "minor" who refuses to "grow up"; if men allow themselves to be led by "authorities" instead of "thinking for themselves," it is solely through laziness and cowardice, neither more nor less. A thinker who needs to make use of such means — which on the whole are demagogic — must indeed be short of serious arguments.

Weakness can imitate strength if bound properly, just as cowardice can imitate heroism if given nowhere to flee.

You are not a weak man, Dalinar,' Navani said. 'I am. But weakness can imitate strength if bound properly, just as cowardice can imitate heroism if given nowhere to flee.

But you can't put fight into a man's guts if he hasn't any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that you can't ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death. We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who don't live in the moment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind.

Frighted Jonah trembles, and summoning all his boldness to his face, only looks so much the more a coward.

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

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

Every man is sensitive. Some cover it up with brutality, others with cowardice and vanity, but a small few wear it bravely like armor

Death is but a moment, cowardice is a lifetime of affliction.

Lonnie Smith doesn't deserve to fight ever again. I am totally disgusted with him. If I had known he would run like a coward, I would never have given him a fight. He has disgraced boxing.

What is it that makes all our quarrels end in death nowadays? Whereas our fathers knew degrees of vengeance we now begin at the end and straightway talk of nothing but killing. What causes that, if not cowardice?

La?itatea e cel ma mai cumplit viciu.

These words, which do not appear in the definitive text, tell us how painfully Bulgakov weighed the question of cowardice and guilt in considering the fate of his hero, and how we should understand the ending of the final

If it is true that cowardice is the most grievous vice, then the dog at least is not guilty of it.

There is one thing I feel assured of; that is the confidence of every brave man of my command, and those who showed the white feather will do all in their power to attract attention from themselves. I had perhaps a dozen officers arrested for cowardice in the first day's fight. These men are necessarily my enemies.

Superstition [is] cowardice in the face of the Divine

Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.

For the enemy is not Troll, nor it is Dwarf, but it is the baleful, the malign, the cowardly, the vessels of hatred, those who do a bad thing and call it good.

I was a moral coward, and he was not losing his life and desires through fear—which the majority of us do.

Burn from my brain and from my breastSloth, and the cowardice that clings,And stiffness and the soul's arrest:And feed my brain with better things.