Quotes about Cowardice

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

That's what I dislike most of all in people — cold irony. It's a very cowardly attitude to mock or belittle everything, never be committed to anything, not feel tied to anything. Like an impotent man who can't experience pleasure himself, but will do all he can to ruin it for others

It's a very cowardly attitude to mock or belittle everything, never be committed to anything, not feel tied to anything. Like an impotent man who can't experience pleasure himself, but will do all he can to ruin it for others.

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

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

Each time that my enemy would provoke me to combat, I behave as a gallant soldier. I know that a duel is an act of cowardice, and so, without once looking him in the face, I turn my back on the foe, then I hasten to my Saviour, and vow that I am ready to shed my blood in witness of my belief in Heaven.

But nothing is crueler than a coward, and the slaughter to come is probably beyond our imagining.