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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.
There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.
Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.
Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.
Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits.
Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it.
In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!
Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.
Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.
Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles;
Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
Alec would have said he could have benefited from a bit more in the way of constructive cowardice.
I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.
It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.
To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice.
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
...Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that.
Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot.
Order or disorder depends on organisation and direction; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on tactical dispositions.
So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.
If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.
The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.
As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.
If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.
The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the "other side.
I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year.
The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.
They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it.
To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).
We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.
For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.
Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.
It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.
As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.
I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love.
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.
When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.
Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.
Giving your team cover for their cowardice is foolish. Give them a platform for bravery instead.
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.
Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong.
Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder . . . Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice.
Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.
