Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist, Philosopher
"Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice."
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Cowardice
142 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Mikhail Bulgakov
Novelist, Playwright
"Cowardice is the most terrible of vices."
John Brown
Abolitionist, Military Leader
"Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!"
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Activist, Author
"Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice."
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"The thing that cowardice fears most is decision"
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"The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards."
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"To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice."
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"It was the cowards who died many times before their death."
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"All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well."
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"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."
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"I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn."
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"Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage."
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"Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so."
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"Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards."
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"A coward's courage is in his tongue."
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"Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice."
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"I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity."
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"You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself"
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"Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances."
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"Cowardice, the dread of what will happen."
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"Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice."
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"Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice."
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"Humor is the most engaging cowardice."
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"We are all born cowards."
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"The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology."
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