(83 quotes found)
“Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.”
Hosea Ballou
“There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice”
Mark Twain
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.”
Rollo May
“It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life”
Irish Sayings
“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.”
Oscar Wilde
“Fear has its use but cowardice has none.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Since I no longer expect/ anything from mankind except/ madness,/ meanness, and mendacity;/ egotism,/ cowardice,/ and/ self-delusion,/ I have stopped/ being a/ misanthrope.”
Irving Layton
“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...”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.”
Swami Sivananda
