It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life
- Andrey DenisovCowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
- Ernest HemingwayTo sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham LincolnTo be one`s self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
- Irving WallaceSuicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live
- Charles Caleb ColtonTo see the right and not to do it is cowardice.
- ConfuciusStrength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.
- Daisaku IkedaIf you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I`m a coward.
- Jack HandyFear has its use but cowardice has none.
- Mahatma GandhiThe opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May