Top 44 Cowardice Quotes

Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.

Because at bottom, I’m interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people’s heads.

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.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it’s cowardice.

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

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

Jesus was loyal to his apostles, with full knowledge of their cowardice. He was loyal to the poor, accepting the criticism of the Pharisees, so the destitute would never feel deserted. He was loyal to his father, accomplishing his will even unto death.

The seven deadly sins should be updated. We should add an eighth sin: Cowardice.

We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or giving up simply as forms of cowardice.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

There’s a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don’t meet the right crazy people, you can’t do it.

When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and hate.

Japan’s biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

There’s nothing but brutality and bravery or cowardice that comes out of war. That’s pretty much it.

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

‘Get along, go along’ is not an inspirational philosophy, and only God knows how much moral cowardice it has covered up over the years. Serve your time, collect your chits, and cash ’em in for your home state? No, I’d say we could ask for more than that from our senators.

Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don’t sit in the dark hiding. It’s easy to hide and shout and waste people’s time.

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

There is a term called political correctness, and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowardice.

I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year.

The notion that the ‘leader’ has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise – if you’d be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut – that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.

To be one’s self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

Let’s stop hiding behind a pseudo-respect of cultures, in a sickening relativism that’s only a mask for our cowardice, our cynicism, and our powerlessness. I, born Muslim, Moroccan, and French, I will say it to you: Sharia makes me vomit.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason.

Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

Since cowardice must occur at a time and place where an enemy either has already appeared or may yet turn up, servicemen in peacetime – and ordinary civilians – can breathe a sigh of relief. If you are yellow-bellied back home, you’re not technically a coward.

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

Mike Tyson notoriously looked for a way out against Evander Holyfield when it was clear Holyfield had his number. Suddenly, Tyson’s cowardice in gnawing off Holyfield’s ear overshadowed nearly everything he had accomplished as a fighter.

Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man with a free, frank, generous, brave nature, you will find that man without suspicion.

The Americans I know are not willing to abandon our police and our great Democratic experiment to the pathetic cowardice – or worse – of the progressive Left.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.