Cowardice Quotes - Page 9

• . . . 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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• 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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• ...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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• Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.

  Adolf Hitler

  Pacifism

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• For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not to himself. Nor does beauty and strength of body, when dwelling in a base and cowardly man, appear comely, but the reverse of comely, making the possessor more conspicuous, and manifesting forth his cowardice.

  Plato

  Plato, Men, Dwelling

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.166, Booklassic

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• Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Men, Evil

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• I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death.  All cowardice comes from not loving, or not loving well, which is the same thing.

  Corey Stoll

  Real, Believe, Paris

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• Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do not feel, they call it being tactful. Cowardice would be a much better name. Tact is an active quality t hat is not exercised by merely making a dash for cover. Be sure, when you think you are being extremely tactful, that you are not in reality running away from something you ought to face.

  Frank Medlicott

  Running, Mistake, Reality

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• Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Believe, Fighting, Long

  "Paris Review interview". Interview with George Plimpton, Paris Review Issue 18, Spring, 1958.

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• Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Pride, Political, Enemy

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan - Revised Edition”, p.312, Broadview Press

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• Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.

  Sigmund Freud

  Deceit, Culture, Conflict

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• When we renounce our dreams, we find peace and enjoy a brief period of tranquillity, but the dead dreams begin to rot inside us and to infect the whole atmosphere in which we live. What we hoped to avoid in the Fight -disappointment and defeat- become the sole legacy of our cowardice.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, Disappointment

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• It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.

  Frederick Douglass

  Long, Rose, Forever

  Frederick Douglass (2013). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• Seek the truth in all fields, and in that search you will need at least three virtues: courage, zest and modesty. The ancients put that thought in the form of a prayer. They said, “From the cowardice that shrinks from new truth, from the laziness that is content with half truth, from the arrogance that thinks it has all truth – O God of truth, deliver us.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Prayer, Thinking, Zest

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• Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!

  John Brown

  Tired, Hearing, Caution

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• For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.

  Henri Matisse

  Influence, Sincerity, Avoided

  Margrit Hahnloser-Ingold, Henri Matisse (1987). “Matisse, the graphic work”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder . . . Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice.

  Madeleine Albright

  Joy, Cojones, Pilots

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• 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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• 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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