Julia Glass

All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice, folly, denial or misguided passion. They squander what matters most, and still they pick up the pieces.

American Novelist

Kevin Patterson

Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.

Canadian Writer

Eric Hoffer

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

American Writer

Irving Wallace

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

American Author

Plutarch

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

Greek Philosopher

Jim Hightower

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

American Activist

Peter Ustinov

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

English Actor

Mark Twain

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

Kay Kay Menon

Terrorism is not a sign of courage. It means cowardice.

Indian Actor

Hosea Ballou

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

American Clergyman

Cowardice carries a strong negative feeling; it's an insult to someone's character.

Negative Connotation

Cowardice isn't just about physical threats; it can apply to avoiding challenges or confrontations.

Not Physical Only

Perceptions of cowardice can vary by culture; what's cowardly in one may not be in another.

Cultural Perceptions

 After all, they lasted forever and it really hurt to get them. For the Maori, those tattoos were an accepted mainstream tradition. If you shied away from the excruciating chiseling in of your moko design, your unfinished tattoo marked your cowardice. Today, unless you go the traditional route,

The history of tattoos -...

 they had much to do with it they too might be infected by cowardice we made quite a collection of ten wrecks of several different species which we brought back to london but these two i'm especially fond of because a month after we'd got them back to the zoo to our surprise

Sir David Attenborough...

 try and outwit their pursuers the colobus lure the chimps higher and higher into the trees where the smaller lighter color must have an advantage they can balance on branches that chimps would break this male cowardice holds

Chimps Hunting in Trees...

 We can't keep pumping more and more money in pursuit of short term profit in activities that are destroying the future of humanity. This is not a time for moral cowardice.