Definition of Cowardice

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Definition of Cowardice
	Cowardice Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit. Related Definitions: Base, Courage, Danger, Extreme, Face, Fear, Hurt, Lack, Of, Or, Pusillanimity, Spirit, Timidity, To, Want

Cowardice Quotations

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

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Mohandas Gandhi

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

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

To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
Robert Frost

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

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

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

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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