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Quotes about Cowardice

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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
- Olga Tokarczuk
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.
- Olga Tokarczuk
Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
- Samuel Johnson
Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.
- John Adams
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.
- Mark Twain
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
- Mark Twain
The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
- Aristotle
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.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
But nothing is crueler than a coward, and the slaughter to come is probably beyond our imagining.
- Cormac McCarthy