Quotes about Cowardice

Military Commander

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Compete - Cowardice - Fear - Good - Indulgence - Man

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Swami Vivekananda

Philosopher, Clergyman, Author

Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice.

Commanding - Cowardice - Death - Obedience

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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.

Cowardice - Help - Honesty - Knowledge - Making - Revolution - Teaching

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Ambrose Bierce

Writer, Journalist, Soldier

An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.

Cowardice - Man

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Alexander Pope

Poet

What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.

Cowardice - Slavery

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Mikhail Bulgakov

Dancer, Writer, Writer

Cowardice is the greatest sin.

Cowardice - Sin

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Swami Vivekananda

Philosopher, Clergyman, Author

To cowards what advice shall I offer? - nothing whatsoever have I to say.

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Eric Hoffer

Historian, Writer, Philosopher

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Cowardice - Fashion - Follower - Making - Strength - Weakness

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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women

Cowardice - Man

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Marcel Proust

Dramatist, Author, Novelist

The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the "other side.

Cowardice - Opinion

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Writer

Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.

Cowardice - Gentleman - Tea - Vulgarity

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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

Cowardice - Morals - Spiritual

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Homer

Poet

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

Bravery - Cowardice - Man

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Alain de Botton

Philosopher, Author

Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is in ourselves, all the cowardice, weakness, laziness, dishonesty, compromise, and stupidity. We throw a cordon of love around the chosen one and decide that everything within it will somehow be free of our faults. We locate inside another a perfection that eludes us within ourselves, and through our union with the beloved hope to maintain (against the evidence of all self-knowledge) a precarious faith in our species.

Compromise - Cowardice - Dishonesty - Elude - Fall - Fault - Laziness - Oneself - Perfection - Stupid - Triumph - Unions - Weakness

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Homer

Poet

Shoulder-to-shoulder, swing to the work, we must - just two as we are - if we hope to make some headway. The worst cowards, banded together, have their power, but you and I have got the skill to fight their best.

Cowardice - Fighting - Together

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Epictetus

Clergyman, Philosopher, Philosopher

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.

Cowardice - Dread

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Philologist, Cultural Critic, Scholar

The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

Cowardice - Meaning

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William Shakespeare

Poet, Playwright, Actor

O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!

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Ayn Rand

Writer, Philosopher

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic, Political Activist

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

Cowardice - Criminal - Failing - Man - Rebelling

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