Quotes with cowardice

  • 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.
  • Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.

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  • Adolf Hitler Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Robert Anthony The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
    Robert Anthony
    American psychologist and self-help writer
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  • Ayn Rand There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Plutarch Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Epictetus Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Samuel Johnson Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.
    Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
    Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China (1897 - 2003)
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  • Hosea Ballou Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • John McCain Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.
    John McCain
    American politician (1936 - 2018)
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  • Billy Connolly 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.
    Billy Connolly
    Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, actor (1942 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Will Rogers I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Annie Dillard It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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