Cowardice Quotes

A real man—real in all the ways that we recognize as real—finds himself suddenly abstracted from the world and deposited in a physical situation which could not possibly exist: sounds have aroma, smells have color and depth, sights have texture, touches have pitch and timbre. There he is informed by a disembodied voice that he has been brought to that place as a champion for his world. He must fight to the death in single combat against a champion from another world. If he is defeated, he will die, and his world—the real world—will be destroyed because it lacks the inner strength to survive.The man refuses to believe that what he is told is true. He asserts that he is either dreaming or hallucinating, and declines to be put in the false position of fighting to the death where no real danger exists. He is implacable in his determination to disbelieve his apparent situation, and does not defend himself when he is attacked by the champion of the other

~ Stephen R. Donaldson

​Pass on bravery and wisdom to the future generations, not some ragged traditions and baseless cowardice.

~ Abhijit Naskar

humility must not be equated to mediocrity and cowardice

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I wanted to shout down to him, to warn him that he was giving flowers to a monster, but I did not.

~ Neil Gaiman

Every man is sensitive. Some cover it up with brutality, others with cowardice and vanity, but a small few wear it bravely like armor

~ Solange Nicole

Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves--their convictions and their aspirations--every day. There is nothing noble about it. It takes far more courage to fight for your values than to relinquish them.

~ Nathaniel Branden

we do not ask. We want to be told. One of the most curious things in the structure of our psyche is that we all want to be told because we are the result of the propaganda of ten thousand years. We want to have our thinking confirmed and corroborated by another, whereas to ask a question is to ask it of yourself.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Excuses are a promise of repetition.

~ Stefan Molyneux

The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: Human Nature.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

~ Oliver Goldsmith

Man is weak. Purpose makes him strong.

~ Raheel Farooq

I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with the blind worship of the ignoble past, with the idea that all the great and good are dead, that the living are totally depraved, that all pleasures are sins, that sighs and groans are alone pleasing to God, that thought is dangerous, that intellectual courage is a crime, that cowardice is a virtue, that a certain belief is necessary to secure salvation, that to carry a cross in this world will give us a palm in the next, and that we must allow some priest to be the pilot of our souls.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

I once knew a man who was heir to the throne of a great kingdom, he lived as a ranger and fought his destiny to sit on a throne but in his blood he was a king. I also knew a man who was the king of a small kingdom, it was very small and his throne very humble but he and his people were all brave and worthy conquerors. And I knew a man who sat on a magnificent throne of a big and majestic kingdom, but he was not a king at all, he was only a cowardly steward. If you are the king of a great kingdom, you will always be the only king though you live in the bushes. If you are the king of a small kingdom, you can lead your people in worth and honor and together conquer anything. And if you are not a king, though you sit on the king’s throne and drape yourself in many fine robes of silk and velvet, you are still not the king and you will never be one.

~ C. Joybell C.

A coward: a man or woman who is unsatisfied by his condition and believes he was destined to accept it that way

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

This cult of the future is not only a weakness but a cowardice of the age.

~ G.k. Chesterton

I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?

~ Frank Herbert

Leaving others alone is a sign of cowardice, whether you are involved in a war or in a relationship.

~ Pratik Akkawar

Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the stronger sex...

~ Gustave Flaubert

Do I know you? I know you clear through. I was born and raised in the South, and I’ve lived in the North; so I know the average all around. The average man’s a coward.

~ Mark Twain

You can't be a man and a coward at the same time.

~ Jum Jumms

Men can be pitiless towards a woman whose body has eluded them, particularly if this is thanks to their own cowardice.

~ Andreï Makine

If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Bold people dance happily when they are confronted with life’s adventures... they see themselves going through with smiles... Give no excuse for being a coward. Be bold!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

People with positive attitude can see great things even in worse situations. Only cowards give up because the worst happened to them.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Thinking without acting makes you a coward. Acting without thinking makes you insane. You need both the thoughts and actions, they never walk alone!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

To the cowards, change is a want; to the weak, change is a wish; but to the brave, change is a must. People who put change ahead of all things are those who make a difference!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don't be afraid of the dark. She tousled his hair tolerantly. I've never known a man who wasn't scared of more things than I was.

~ Edward Hoagland

She loved sinking into her bed on evenings like this, but apparently she shouldn't, because it worried her aunts, who thought she ought to be out dancing. It worried her a little bit, too, because what if they were right, and because sometimes a great loneliness welled up in her and threatened all the dams she built to hold it back. You couldn't cure loneliness by wallowing in it, up above the world, on an island removed from everything. She knew that. But she had such a hard time with all the cures. They seemed rough and brusque and brutal, as if they abused her skin with a pot scrubber . . . forcing herself into a mass of people, a stranger among strangers. . . . But it was much more tempting to curl up with a book under her thick white comforter.Still, sometimes after she curled up, she regretted her lack of courage and felt bleakly l

~ Laura Florand

The war on Christmas is waged of weakness and fed by vision blinded. It is a war of intellect blunted to stupidity and calling begging at the feet of cowardice.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.

~ E.m. Forster

There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation, refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.

~ Criss Jami

Emperors are not made from cowards, they are made from those who take great risk where there stands to be even greater gain.

~ A.j. Darkholme

If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you commit suicide than to be dragged along like a donkey.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

There is a huge difference between a coward, and a hero. Cowards never learns from their mistakes. Like many, he masquerades as a dragon, but is a mere drunken fool, blinded by his own pride, and foolishness. And like many, cowards love inflicting pain upon the innocent. Like an ostrich, cowards hides underneath the sand, blocking all kinds of disturbances, critisisms towards them. That is not the case of heroes. Heroes on the other hand learns from their mistakes. Unlike a coward, a hero never commits the same mistakes again, and hates inflicting pain upon the innocent. They need not be blamed by others; they blame themselves, even for somethings that seem so little. By doing so, they learn from even the smallest of mistakes, and later on achieves a reward beyond imagining.

~ Anthony Lo

The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.

~ William Francis Butler

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

~ Charles Dickens

Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men.

~ John Steinbeck