I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice.
Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.
We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.
Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it.
Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
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.
There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.
But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.
When will the state of the country be sound?. . . When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.
When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot.
But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?
The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
The coward is an object to be pitied.
When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence
Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.
Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic.
A fortress is of no use to cowards.
Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.
My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.