Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. . . I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor.
Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.
As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.
Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.
All around me is cowardice and deceit.
Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy.
Perfect courage and utter cowardice are two extremes which rarely occur.
When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.
The coward is an object to be pitied.
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.
When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it.
Is there cowardice with the acknowledgement of fear?
There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood.
Order or disorder depends on organisation; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on dispositions.
Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.
For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.
This world is not for cowards.