Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Cowardice/weakness.
It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.
Junius
Cowards can never be moral.
Mahatma Gandhi
A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
Quintus Curtius Rufus
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
Bishop Westcott
When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
Eric Hoffer
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
Faint heart never won fair lady.
Miguel de Cervantes
For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.
Christian Nevell Bovee
My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.
Mahatma Gandhi, November 24, 194
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
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan Poe
One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)
All virtues come down to courage, at the sharp end of the sword. But courage must be tempered by prudence. Courage wasted by misdirection is the most heart-breaking of all tragedies. If there is an eighth deadly sin, it ought to be stupidity, by which all virtues run out into dry sands. Yet...where does prudence end and cowardice begin? That's a very good damn question!
Lois McMaster Bujold, The Spirit
The cowards never started -- and the weak died along the way.
Source Unknown
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
Ayn Rand
If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'
Benjamin Carson
Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.
John Gay
