Quotes of Cowardice - somelinesforyou

“ He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool. ”

- Albert Camus

“ I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. ”

- Euripides

“ None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. ”

- Ferdinand Foch

“ Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice. ”

- George Jackson

“ A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

“ There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. ”

- Mark Twain

“ A brave man dies but once, a coward many times. ”

- Native American proverb

“ Many would be cowards if they had courage enough. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. ”

- Umberto Eco

“ Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right? ”

- William Punshon

“ A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom and ever three parts coward. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Conscience does make cowards of us all, and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. ”

- Mark Twain

“ To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. ”

- Confucius

“ Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right? ”

- William Morley Punshon

“ Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice. ”

- George Jackson

“ Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen. ”

- Epictetus

“ Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive. ”

- George A. Knight

“ Fear has its use but cowardice has none. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion. ”

- Eric Hoffer
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