Cowardice Quotes - Page 6

• Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sad, Death, Suicide

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.145

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• One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

  Voltaire

  People, Coward, Honest

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• Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

  Thomas Fuller

  Confidence, Military, Ironic

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Obstacles, Submissive, Surrender

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• For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Stupidity, Lust, Brutal

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1853). “The treatises of M.T. Cicero on the nature of the gods [tr. by T.Francklin]; on divination; on fate; on the republic; on the laws; and on standing for the consulship, tr. chiefly by the ed. C.D.Yonge [and F.Barham].”, p.420

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• The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

  Mark Twain

  Race, Coward, Human Condition

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.130, Univ of California Press

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• Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

  Peter Ustinov

  Courage, Information, Cases

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• Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

  Robert Frost

  Icy, Engaging

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.402, Harvard University Press

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• Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

  John Gay

  Love, Bravery, Coward

  John Gay, Nathaniel Cotton, Edward Moore (1826). “Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives”, p.20

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• The coward, afraid of the lash, with one hand wipes his eyes and gives with the other. Of what avail are such gifts?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Eye, Hands, Giving

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1875, Manonmani Publishers

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• My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Hands, Valor

  'The Rivals' (1775) act 5, sc. 3

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• Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Mirrors, Play, Feelings

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.65, Verso

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• faint heart never won fair lady

  Meg Cabot

  Heart, Faint Of Heart, Fairs

  Patricia Cabot, Meg Cabot (2015). “Where Roses Grow Wild”, p.176, Macmillan

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• It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

  Junius

  Coward, Fawns, Dare

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• Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Life, Courage, Queens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

  Dolores Ibarruri

  Hero, Wife, Coward

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• He who fights and runs away
  May live to fight another day.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Running, Fighting, May

  Oliver Goldsmith (1900*). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The life of Oliver Goldsmith”

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• When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.

  George Sewell

  Suicide, Suicidal, Brave

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• Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!
  Thou little valiant, great in villainy!
  Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!
  Thou Fortune's champion, that dost never fight
  But where her humorous ladyship is by
  To teach thee safety.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Humorous, Fighting

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1811). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens. With a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, a Life of Shakespeare, &c.[edited] by Alexander Chalmers”, p.231

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• No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.

  Jose Rizal

  Fall, Blow, Ducks

  Jose Rizal (2010). “Noli Me Tangere: Translated by Leon Ma. Guerrero”, p.278, BookBaby

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• Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Hands, Fingers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.

  Samuel Johnson

  Peace, Mutual

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 326 (28 April 1778)

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• History teaches us no race, no people, no nation has ever been freed through cowardice, through cringing, through bowing and scraping, but all that has been achieved to the glory of mankind, to the glory and honour of races and nations was through the manly determination and effort of those who lead and those who are led.

  Marcus Garvey

  Determination, Race, History

  Marcus Garvey (1983). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. II: August 1919-August 1920”, p.616, Univ of California Press

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• The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.

  Aristotle

  War, Men, Light

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• Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor.

  Nelson Mandela

  Choices, Honor, Arms

  "The Sacred Warrior" by Nelson Mandela, content.time.com. December 31, 1999.

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