Top 45 Cowardice Man Quotes
#1. Do not mistake your ignorance or lack of skills for cowardice. It is a wise man that acknowledges his limitations.
Kel Kade
#2. Then, yes. It's civilized. What a man eats, he should be willing to kill. It's not absolutely necessary that he do so, but he should at least be willing to face the reality of it. To eat a chicken only if it comes from the market is the height of cowardice and denial. Someone still had to kill it.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#3. Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#4. The man who grounds his action on another's cowardice, is essentially a coward himself.
George MacDonald
#6. A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#7. 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
#8. A coward,' he declared with dignity, when he'd stopped coughing and had got his breath back, 'dies a hundred times. A brave man dies but once. But Dame Fortune favours the brave and holds the coward in contempt.'
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Dandelion
Andrzej Sapkowski
#9. There is a killer in every cowardly man, waiting for the right set of circumstances when the time has been drained of the possibility of reprisals and he feels free to act.
M.D. Lachlan
#10. Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.
Plato
#11. If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.
Michel De Montaigne
#12. Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice
George Bernard Shaw
#13. ( ... )man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#14. Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite,
Encompassed with thy lustful paramours,
Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age
And twit with cowardice a man half dead?
William Shakespeare
#15. 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 this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#16. A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten not only his safety and well-being but his sanity, his innermost soul, then retreat is not a sign of weakness but the most prudent course.
Susan Hill
#17. 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
#18. All is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most ... .
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#19. 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
#20. If a woman-in-a-man's body goes after a man, is she attracted to the same or the opposite sex? If a man-in-a -woman's body wants a woman, is he a lesbian or straight? Prejudice is only cowardice in the face of complexity.
Jay Lemke
#21. Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man with a free, frank, generous, brave nature, you will find that man without suspicion.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#22. Don't be afraid of the dark." She tousled his hair tolerantly. "I've never known a man who wasn't scared of more things than I was.
Edward Hoagland
#23. A man who is fearless is neither coward nor brave for bravery is just a cover up for cowardice.
Osho
#24. Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.
T.F. Hodge
#26. The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#27. We know all about you, Rincewind the magician. You are a man of great cunning and artifice. You laugh in the face of Death. Your affected air of craven cowardice does not fool me.
It fooled Rincewind.
Terry Pratchett
#28. Hm ... yes, all is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#29. They must be cool but determined ... he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
David McCullough
#30. I detest bullies for their cowardice, and despise them for their cruelty. I never knew a tough man who preyed on the weak. Tough men hate bullies almost as much as bullies hate tough men.
Gregory David Roberts
#31. Byerozkin knew very well that the man with no quiet at the bottom of his soul was unable to endure for long, however courageous he might be in combat. He thought of fear or cowardice, on the other hand, as something temporary, something that could be cured as easily as a cold.
Vasily Grossman
#32. [D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice ... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without a conscience a man may never be said to grow old. This is an age of very old young men.
Hesketh Pearson
#33. To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.
Aristotle.
#34. A man don't need to act tough if he is. Men that put on a show are spineless more often than not.
Eric Powell
#35. Conscience is just a polite word for cowardice. No civilised man regrets a pleasure.
Lord Henry Wotton
#36. To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.
Michel De Montaigne
#37. In my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them
Marcel Proust
#38. 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.
William Francis Butler
#39. Men trust an ordinary man because they trust themselves. But men trust a great man because they do not trust themselves. And hence the worship of great men always appears in times of weakness and cowardice; we never hear of great men until the time when all other men are small.
G.K. Chesterton
#40. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not quite coward enough to admire it.
G.K. Chesterton
#42. A coward: a man or woman who is unsatisfied by his condition and believes he was destined to accept it that way
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#43. Every man is sensitive. Some cover it up with brutality, others with cowardice and vanity, but a small few wear it bravely like armor
Solange Nicole
#44. Male passivity is a disease that robs a man of his purpose while it destroys marriages, ruins families, and spoils legacies. A passive man doesn't engage; he retreats. He neglects personal responsibility. At its core, passivity is cowardice.
Dennis Rainey
#45. If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.
Amiri Baraka
