35 Quotes About Cowardice

Referring to another man as a coward is considered to be one of the worst insults you can give another man. From shame and recklessness, here are some great quotes about cowardice that are encouraging to read.

“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”

“A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”

“A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.”

“But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.”

“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.”

“Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.”

“Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.”

“Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.”

“Despair gives courage to a coward.”

“Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.”

“Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.”

“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.”

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

“Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.”

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

“I’d like to see one person – just one – who would own up to having been a coward.”

“I’m astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing: it should inhibit me from even beginning.”

“In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.”

“Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy.”

“None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.”

“Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.”

“Only the brave know how to forgive… a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.”

“Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.”

“That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.”

“The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.”

“The coward’s weapon, poison.”

“The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.”

“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”

“The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.”

“To be scrupulously honest, I only met Noel Coward twice in my life, and then briefly, but I heard so much about him at home when I was growing up that I always felt I knew him well.”

“To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.”

“Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.”

“We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.”

“You cannot be a hero without being a coward.”

“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.”

It takes courage to stand up and fight for a change.