Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.

You’re gutless. It’s how you were made. And that’s not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you’ve never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as...

The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: “Human Nature”.

He who fights with guns and knives is a coward! For how easy is it to kill with the single pull of a trigger? And how does human flesh stand to a sharpened metal? Even...

I’d never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn’t see how that wasn’t cowardice…

Those who are brave, are the greatest cowards of all. For they fear failure.

If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you commit suicide than to be dragged along like a donkey.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

But often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.

Goldstein, you’d be a pretty good boy if you wasn’t so chicken.

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener;

I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with...

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

People with positive attitude can see great things even in worse situations. Only cowards give up because the worst happened to them.

Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the stronger sex…

Most men wait to move until victory is guaranteed.

Man is weak. Purpose makes him strong.

The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.

Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned...

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.

There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general:(1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction;(2) cowardice, which leads to capture;(3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults;(4) a delicacy of honor which is...

Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.

Son, never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the...

I think before I act—and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.

A cowardly critique starts with a compliment.

I have always found it odd that people who think passive aggressively ignoring a person is making a point to them. The only point it makes to anyone is your inability to articulate your point...

Turning back against your responsibilityas a father is the most spineless thing you can do.

To the cowards, change is a want; to the weak, change is a wish; but to the brave, change is a must. People who put change ahead of all things are those who make a...

I’m astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing: it should inhibit me from even beginning. But I get distracted and start doing something. What I achieve...

Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don’t be over-joyed to the state of oblivion, lest the enemy poison your meal.

They thought he was scared all the time because he was a coward. The truth was, only he could see the world clearly enough to know how truly scary it was.

I once knew a man who was heir to the throne of a great kingdom, he lived as a ranger and fought his destiny to sit on a throne but in his blood he was...

So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?””Not likely! I’m a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself...

If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act...

When you start listening to side talks, you begin to behave like a child, and you must kill the child to sustain the man, the man is always overlooking and philosophical.

We may place blame, give reasons, and even have excuses; but in the end, it is an act of cowardice to not follow your dreams.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make...

He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not...

Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves–their convictions and their aspirations–every day. There is nothing noble about it. It takes far more courage to...

So answer me, are you merely a cowardly Moses, pointing the way to the Promised Land but poisoned by doubt and so unable to cross the River Jordan?

Emperors are not made from cowards; they are made from those who take great risk where there stands to be even greater gain.

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...

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

I’m a fucking coward.””Maybe.” Craw jerked his thumb over his shoulder at Whirrun’s corpse. “There’s a hero. Tell me who’s better off.