Cowardice
Cowardice is a trait wherein fear and excess self-concern override what is socially-deemed as right and courageous action —it is the opposite of courage. As a label, "cowardice" indicates a perceived failure to demonstrate sufficient mental robustness and courage in the face of a challenge.
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Famous quotes containing the word cowardice:
“The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man’s resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)
“The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)