Quotes about Cowardice

Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.

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

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

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

What are You, my God? I thought angrily. How do You compare to this stricken mass gathered to affirm to You their faith, their anger, their defiance? What does Your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of all this cowardice, this decay, and this misery? Why do you go on troubling these poor people's wounded minds, their ailing bodies?

No arguments will give courage to the 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.

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

No arguments will give courage to the coward.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

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.