Cowardice quotations

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◆ When in doubt chicken out.

- Robin Jones Gunn99

◆ Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

- José Rizal99

◆ Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have become.

- Brooke Foss Westcott99

◆ If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.

- Jim Butcher99

◆ The devil's happy when the critics run you off.

- Criss Jami99

◆ We may place blame, give reasons, and even have excuses; but in the end, it is an act of cowardice to not follow your dreams.

- Steve Maraboli99

◆ If you run from enemy fire, I'll make you wash dishes for the rest of your life!

- Naoki Urasawa99

◆ Haters and bullies are always cowards, you know. They like to pick on little guys.

- Scylar Tyberius99

◆ Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

- André Gide99

◆ Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.

- Frank Herbert99

◆ It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

- Herodotus99

◆ He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.

- Gustave Flaubert99

◆ You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

- Khaled Hosseini99

◆ Humans are strange things. They are the most proud on the outside during the times they are the most insecure on the inside, and they would rather die manipulating others than be brave enough to be honest.

- 99

◆ Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It's a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you're hurt.

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