Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.
Holbrook Jackson

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
George Jackson

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
Charles Caleb Colton

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
Jim Hightower

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
Robert Anthony

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Rollo May

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
Clarence Darrow

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Mark Twain

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

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.
Kurt Huber

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

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
Irving Wallace

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

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.
Confucius

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
Miguel de Cervantes

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Miguel de Cervantes

We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason.
Philip Kearny

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
Eric Hoffer

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

Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.
Veronica Franco