Cowardice Quotes - Page 11

• If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian| warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world, warring would go on forever. But luckily we are only men — and cowards.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Warrior, Men, Forever

  Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.102, Cambridge University Press

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• Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.

  Theophrastus

  Superstitions, Regard, Seems

  Theophrastus (1870). “Θεοφραστου Χαρακτηρες”, p.163

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• Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.

  Irving Layton

  Self, Madness, Misanthrope

  Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”

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• Lies come from fear, from cowardice.

  Jenny Sanford

  Lying

  Jenny Sanford (2010). “Staying True”, p.193, Ballantine Books

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• Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The brave are always moral. Try to be moral, try to be brave, try to be sympathising.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Children, Lying

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

  Duke of Wellington

  Resorts, Rashness

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• Courage is defined as: the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from a chosen course of action. Many of today's world leaders have great courage: I wonder... would we be better off with cowardice?

  Joshua Fernandez

  Pain, Leader, World

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• I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm, that there is no salvation for a coward even after millions of years of penance.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Believe, Years, Coward

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3943, Manonmani Publishers

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• I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hate, Political, Coward

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2060, Manonmani Publishers

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• . . . 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2013, Manonmani Publishers

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• It is the hero alone, not the coward, who has liberation within his easy reach.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hero, Coward, Easy

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.166, Vivekananda Kendra

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• Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Forgiveness, Coward, Weakness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.417, Manonmani Publishers

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• May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Son, Men, Coward

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3372, Manonmani Publishers

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• Never allow weakness to overtake your mind. Remember Mahavira, remember the Divine Mother! And you will see that all weakness, all cowardice will vanish at once.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Mind, Coward

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Saradananda (1964). “Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda”

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• No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself. . .

  Swami Vivekananda

  Coward, Weakness, Sin

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1902, Manonmani Publishers

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• ...Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Coward, Sin, Saved

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4013, Manonmani Publishers

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• Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite,
  Encompassed with thy lustful paramours,
  Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age
  And twit with cowardice a man half dead?

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Age, Half

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.963, Oxford University Press

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• Milk-livered man,
  That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs;
  Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning
  Thine honor from thy suffering; [that not know'st
  Fools do those villains pity who are punished
  Ere they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum?
  France spreads his banners in our noiseless land,
  With plumed helm thy state begins to threat,
  Whilst thou, a moral fool, sits still and cries
  'Alack, why does he so?']

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Blow, Men

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• Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages.

  Samuel Johnson

  Miscarriage, Arrogance, Despair

  Samuel Johnson (1793). “The rambler”, p.263

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• We are all born cowards.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Coward, Born

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1424, Manonmani Publishers

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• 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

  Like Love, Coward, Trying

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2382, Manonmani Publishers

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• 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

  Giving Up, Brave, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.417, Manonmani Publishers

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• You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fearless, Coward

  Swami Vivekananda (1997). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Forgiving, Vegan, Injustice

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• There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Danger, Knows

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (1972). “The last and the first”

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