Cowardice Quotes - Page 13

• On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the present the lineaments of times to come.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Ignorance, Pride, Investing

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• I understood about fear. And I knew better than anyone in that room what Mouse was capable of. But still I had been raised in a place where to show your fear was worse than cowardice. It was suicide, a sin.

  Walter Mosley

  Suicide, Fear, Rooms

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• Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.

  Aeschylus

  Courage, Fear, Want

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• Unless we realize our sins enough to call them by name, it is hardly worth while to say anything about them at all. When we pray for forgiveness, let us say, "my temper," or "untruthfulness," or "pride," "my selfishness, my cowardice, indolence, jealousy, revenge, impurity." To recognize our sins, we must look them in the face and call them by their right names, however hard. Honesty in confession calls for definiteness in confession.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Revenge, Honesty, Pride

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• I'm a hero wid coward's legs, I'm a hero from the waist up.

  Spike Milligan

  Hero, Coward, Legs

  Robert Graves, Spike Milligan, Pauline Scudamore (1991). “Dear Robert, Dear Spike: the Graves-Milligan correspondence”

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• Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

  Robert Frost

  Play, Enemy, Able

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• We are too ready (women especially) not to stand by what we have said or done.

  Brenda Ueland

  Done, Said, Ready

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Strength, Sex, Men

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• Humanity from the first has had its vultures and sharks, and representatives of the fraternity who prey upon mankind may be expected no less in America than elsewhere. That this virulence breaks out most readily and commonly against colored persons in this country, is due of course to the fact that they are, generally speaking, weak and can be imposed upon with impunity. Bullies are always cowards at heart.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Country, Heart, Sharks

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.93, Rowman & Littlefield

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• In every mind where there is a strong tendency to fear there is a strong capacity to hate. Those who dwell in fear dwell nest door to hate; and I think it is the cowardice of women which makes them such intense haters.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Strong, Fear, Hate

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.98

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• Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.

  Billy Connolly

  Dark, People, Want

  "My ambition is to be regarded as a nuisance". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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• Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. But the one who has love, courage and wisdom moves the world.

  Ammon Hennacy

  Love, Wisdom, Moving

  Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.149, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried the fight for independence forward a year of all-too-few victories, of sustained suffering, disease, hunger, desertion, cowardice, disillusionment, defeat, terrible discouragement, and fear, as they would never forget, but also of phenomenal courage and bedrock devotion to country, and that, too they would never forget.

  David McCullough

  Country, Fighting, Years

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.643, Simon and Schuster

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• Playing the part of a charitable soul was only for those who were afraid of taking a stand in life. It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others and fight for your rights. It is always easier to hear an insult and not retaliate than have the courage to fight back against someone stronger than yourself; we can always say we're not hurt by the stones others throw at us, and it's only at night - when we're alone and our wife or our husband or our school friend is asleep - that we can silently grieve over our own cowardice.

  Paulo Coelho

  Courage, Hurt, Husband

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• Alec would have said he could have benefited from a bit more in the way of constructive cowardice.

  Cassandra Clare

  Way, Said, Constructive

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.545, Simon and Schuster

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• Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.

  Andre Gide

  Love, Hate, Men

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• Is there cowardice with the acknowledgement of fear?

  Markus Zusak

  Acknowledgement

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• Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ignorance, Fighting, Winning

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.79, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

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

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• Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Soldier, Coward, Command

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4016, Manonmani Publishers

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• Do not run away, it is cowardice.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Running, Coward, Running Away

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2607, Manonmani Publishers

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• Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Coward, Selfishness, Causes

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

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• Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Coward, Weakness, Sin

  Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• The coward is an object to be pitied.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Coward, Objects

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

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• This world is not for cowards.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Coward, World, This World

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Work and Its Secret”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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