Quotes about cowardice

Valiant of tongue, though his hand was cold for battle.

But base and crafty cowards, are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

Most people were cowards. Being angry about that was like being angry at time for passing.

Scrabbling like mad at their beloved fence, the politicians tried to avoid taking a definite position on either side.

It is astonishing and a little sad to realize how many discoveries, how many advancements, have been delayed for years, for decades, not because the information was unavailable but because of sheer cowardice, fear of being laughed at, of being ostracized by one's colleagues.

Don’t confuse caution with cowardice.

Didn’t anything scare the two aliens? Sometimes she wondered if humans were the only beings in the universe with a sense of cowardice (be charitable, and call it and instinct for self-preservation).

Birdie cringed. If there was one thing worse than being a coward, it was being mistaken for a hero.

Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.

It was a harsh school, right enough ... but a lot of good had come from it.The petty tyrants and bullies were fewer now, for braggarts had little to sustain them in the face of an enemy broadside.

If you ask me, the difference between a hero and a coward is that a hero find some damn-fool way to con himself into going ahead instead of doing the sensible thing.

'I deserve to be thought a coward. I am a coward. I'm just so bloody afraid of dying — of losing —'