(83 quotes found)
“When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.”
Ayn Rand
“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
“As an old soldier I admit the cowardice : it's as universal as sea sickness, and matters just as little.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.”
William Shakespeare
“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.”
Oscar Wilde
“Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.”
Peter Ustinov
“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
“Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“True valor lies half way between cowardice and rashness.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
