Top 93 Courage Cowardice Quotes
#1. We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.
Charles Peguy
#2. If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor.
Jane Porter
#3. The irony is, nothing is more frightening than being frightened.
Neel Burton
#4. Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it.
George D. Prentice
#5. Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men.
John Steinbeck
#6. What--has O-Tar seen an ulsio and fainted?" demanded I-Gos with broad sarcasm.
"Men have died for less than that, ancient one," E-Thas reminded him.
"I am safe," retorted I-Gos, "for I am not a brave and popular son of the jeddak of Manator.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#7. We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.
Swami Vivekananda
#8. Each of us has his cowardice. Each of us is afraid to lose, afraid to die. But hanging back is the way to remain a coward for life. The Way to find courage is to seek it on the field of conflict. And the sure way to victory is willingness to risk one's own life.
Mas Oyama
#9. Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.
John Donne
#10. Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
Peter Ustinov
#11. Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope.
Merle Shain
#12. Blood has an oder faint but distinct, of conceit and modesty, of courage and cowardice, of charity and greed, of faith and doubt, in short the fragrance of what we might have been and the smell of what we are ...
Dean Koontz
#13. Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.
Rollo May
#14. 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. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
Cormac McCarthy
#15. One needs to be either more brave or more good, because if courage is lacking goodness can substitute, while cowardice is the deficiency of both.
Neel Burton
#16. The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#17. 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 Westcott
#18. Apparent confusion is a product of good order; apparent cowardice, of courage; apparent weakness, of strength.
Sun Tzu
#19. The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice ...
George R R Martin
#20. The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
Jim Hightower
#22. Can you call yourself a coward simply because the courage of others seems to you out of proportion to the triviality of the occasion? Thus wisdom creates cowards. And thus you miss Opportunity while spending your life on the lookout for it.
Umberto Eco
#23. Lieutenant al-Kaseasbeh's dedication, courage and service to his country and family represent universal human values that stand in opposition to the cowardice and depravity of ISIL, which has been so broadly rejected around the globe.
Barack Obama
#24. What we call cowardice is often just another name for being taken by surprise, and courage is seldom any better than simply being well prepared.
Gregory David Roberts
#26. Statesmen exhibit five key commitments: 1) A commitment to principles above politics; 2) An ability to compromise without abandoning principle; 3) A commitment to truth over spin; 4) A commitment to courage over cowardice; and 5) A commitment, or willingness, to give up power.
Tom Coburn
#27. So she became a woman who held her head high, not in arrogance, or contempt, but because she knew that it was a form of cowardice to make a choice and then pretend you didn't really make it
Kamila Shamsie
#28. It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.
Michel De Montaigne
#29. Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.
Mason Cooley
#30. A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
Mickey Mantle
#31. Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#32. In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
Samuel Johnson
#33. How did one deal with such ingrained cowardice? Then I realized that there is no such thing as courage in the absence of cowardice. Courage is also a choice: It's what happens when one refuses to give in to fear.
Sherry Thomas
#35. Quiet courage is better than loud cowardice.
Quiet victory is better than loud defeat.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#36. Men's courage is reflected when he snaps at a women.
Pushpa Rana
#37. Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartedness that requires the true courage-however often we are hurt as a result of it.
Erica Jong
#38. You want to run. I understand that. I do believe you almost found the courage just then, until cowardice unmanned you.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#39. 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.
Herodotus
#40. Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
Jean Baudrillard
#41. Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#43. Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.
Philip Sidney
#45. Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.
Mitch Albom
#47. Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.
J.K. Rowling
#49. The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice ... it is conformity.
Earl Nightingale
#50. Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.
Oriana Fallaci
#51. Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Plutarch
#52. Frowning, Shiloh forced herself to look up at him. Roan deserved her courage, not her cowardice. "You wanted to kiss me."
"I still do.
Lindsay McKenna
#53. Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.
Norman Mailer
#54. Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
Thomas Fuller
#55. When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#56. If the written word has contributed anything at all to our developing species and our half developed culture, it is this: Great writing has been a staff to lean on, a mother to consult, a wisdom to pick up stumbling folly, a strength in weakness and a courage to support sick cowardice.
John Steinbeck
#57. They thought he was scared all the time because he was a coward. The truth was, only he could see the world clearly enough to know how truly scary it was.
Simon R. Green
#59. Sometimes, courage is really just cowardice. Sometimes the bravest thing is to let go.
Miguel Syjuco
#60. I think if you are a musician, and artist, you have to have a certain courage. Repeating yourself or photocopying other's art... it's cowardice. If you actually risk your career to do something new, even if it's in a very small way, then it's art.
Thomas Gabriel Fischer
#62. True courage is mixed with circumspection, the kind of healthy skepticism that asks, 'Is this the best way to do this?' True cowardice is marked by chronic skepticism, which always says, 'It can't be done.'
William Bennett
#63. At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#64. Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves
their convictions and their aspirations
every day. There is nothing noble about it. It takes far more courage to fight for your values than to relinquish them.
Nathaniel Branden
#65. A bull that allows a he goat to deter it from moving forward is nothing but a mere he goat
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#66. Courage is defined as: the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from a chosen course of action. Many of today's world leaders have great courage: I wonder ... would we be better off with cowardice?
Joshua Fernandez
#67. Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
William Faulkner
#68. Like all bullies and marauders, Gos was a coward at heart
L. Frank Baum
#69. There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.
Criss Jami
#70. Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
Hosea Ballou
#71. Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.
Norman Mailer
#72. The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side' ...
Marcel Proust
#74. Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.
Francois Mauriac
#75. No one is born to courage, Juliet. Courage is a habit you develop after cowardice has gotten you nothing.
Sabrina Jeffries
#76. Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy.
E.W. Howe
#77. She bade us remember that it was cowardice to succumb to the greatest misfortunes, and that with time and courage there was no evil that could not be remedied.
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot De Villeneuve
#78. There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#79. 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 Hosseini
#81. Cowardice and courage are just labels - words invented by foolish men to bolster their egos and denigrate their enemies. In battle we should be cold, clinical, and disciplined. That
Joseph Delaney
#82. The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.
Charles M. Blow
#83. He which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart, his passport shall be made and crowns for convoy put into his purse. We would not die in that man's company that fears his fellowship, to die with us.
William Shakespeare
#84. Do not be afraid. Because if you let these fears consume you, you'll most likely fail even before everything else starts.
Veronica Mist
#85. Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.
John McCain
#86. Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don't have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#87. Laziness is almost as compelling as life. The new farce you're having to play crushes you with its banality, and all in all it takes more cowardice than courage to start all over again.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#88. Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.
Kevin Patterson
#89. Every act of courage is the work of an unbalanced man. Animals, normal by definition, are always cowardly except when they know themselves know themselves to be stronger, which is cowardice itself.
Emil Cioran
#90. It is what you do about the fear you feel that sets you apart, to be a coward or a courageous person.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#91. So the coward will dare on the gallant horse
What he never would dare alone,
Because he exults in a borrowed force,
And a hardihood not his own.
Adam Lindsay Gordon
#92. There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood.
Chrysippus
#93. Order or disorder depends on organisation; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on dispositions.
Sun Tzu
