Quotes About Cowardice

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Here was an arch lesson in the games subcultures play. Reality is a mass hallucination. We gauge what's real according to what others say. And others, like us, rein in their words, caving in to timidity. Thanks to conformity enforcement and to cowardice, a little power goes a long, long way.

No one escapes his fate, whether brave or coward, not from the moment he is born.' – Homer, The Iliad

To respond to the question of the meaning of life by simply reproducing yourself is to shift the question to the next generation. To not respond at all, or to not even try, isn't that the worst kind of cowardice?

The cognitive dissonance, the denial and cowardice that spare us painful truths and prevent us from acting in defense of innocent victims while allowing 'beloved' individuals to continue their heinous behavior must be jettisoned from the bottom of our souls.

We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason.

Encaro o futuro como uma eternidade de provações e fastio. Minha covardia me impede de por fim aos meus dias.

It didn't occur to me that I never named my own mystery illness the spring before (except to misdiagnose it to friends as mono), because I'd been afraid to admit, even to my mother, how much I'd wanted to lie down somewhere and hide. Black women, tall and strong as cypress trees, didn't pull that. Pain and shame and cowardice and fear had to be kept secret.

But her so-called self-indulgence, her cutting everyone out of her life, had been an act of survival, not the act of a victim. It took courage. Not cowardice.

You told me I shouldn't fall in love with you. Remember?" "Yeah, that's because I'm insanely stubborn. I've always thought I was so damn brave. I mean I put myself on the line every single day on the job." He laughed, and it was not in amusement. "But not my heart. Never my heart. And that doesn't make me brave at all. It makes me a coward.

I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

Open-mindedness is often just a mask for ignorance and cowardice.

What is a liberal-democratic philistine? An empty gut, filled with cowardice.

It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Time that is intolerant Of the brave and the innocent, And indifferent in a week To a beautiful physique, Worships language and forgives Everyone by whom it lives; Pardons cowardice, conceit, Lays its honours at their feet. ...

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.

Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

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

Courage is the goal of cowards.

Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.

Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.