Cowardice
Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.
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Cowardice Quotations
To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.
Confucius
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Mark Twain
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Mahatma Gandhi
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Aristotle
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.
Niccolo Machiavelli
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
Ayn Rand
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
Robert Frost
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Plutarch
Cowardice Translations
cowardice in Danish is fejghed
cowardice in Dutch is lafheid, lafhartigheid
cowardice in German is Feigheit
cowardice in Norwegian is feighet
cowardice in Portuguese is cobardia
cowardice in Swedish is feghet
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