Quotes: Cowardice

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

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it’s cowardice.

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.