A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
Pietro Aretino

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.
Theophrastus

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.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
Randall Terry

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
Peter Ustinov

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Plutarch

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
Jean Baudrillard

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
Hosea Ballou

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Mohandas Gandhi

Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.
Jerome Cady

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
Adolf Hitler

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.
Swami Sivananda

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
Robert Frost

I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.
Henry Addington

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.
Mary Roberts Rinehart

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
Francis Parker Yockey

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.
Margaret Chase Smith