(noun) A person who lacks courage.
"To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice."
"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."
"No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong."
"Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances."
"We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous."
"A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies."
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."
"Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral."
"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool."
"The worst of all fears is the fear of living."
"Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly."
"Fatigue makes cowards of us all."