Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Cowardice/weakness.
When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.
Naguib Mahfouz, Echoes of an Aut
Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.
George A. Knight
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
Marvin Kitman
You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor.He who has mingled in the fray of dutythat the brave endure, must have made foes.If you have none, small is the work that you have done.You've hit no traitor on the hip.You've dashed no cup from perjured lip.You've never turned the wrong to right.You've been a coward in the fight.
Charles Mackay
Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
Queen's Mother Elizabeth
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Mark Twain
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.
When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.
George Sewell
My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving dear ones unprotected. Between violence and cowardly flight, I can only prefer violence to cowardice. I can no more preach nonviolence to a coward than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.
Mahatma Gandhi, The Gospel of No
It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.
Proverb
It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
Dolores Ibarruri
How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
Jeremy Collier
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
The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Marshal Ferdinand Foch
A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.
Philip Dormer Stanhope
The coward threatens when he is safe.
Johann von Goethe
I'm a hero with coward's legs.
Spike Milligan
