A Quote by Duke of Wellington

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

Duke of Wellington

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Courage Cowardice Rashness Resort Than

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Duke of Wellington
British - Public Servant
May 1, 1769 - September 14, 1852

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Miguel de Cervantes

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Miguel de Cervantes

True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.

Philip Sidney

Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect non-violence is the highest bravery. Non-violent conduct is never demoralising; cowardice always is.

Mahatma Gandhi

Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.

Francois Mauriac

There's some wisdom and no moral deficiency to one who holds courage in reserve and uses it as a last resort. Before we take the kind of risks that require courage, we ought to exhaust other less risky alternatives.

Michael Josephson

I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment.

Mahatma Gandhi

Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.

Rollo May

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Hosea Ballou

Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.