Quotes about cowardice

There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.

Emperors are not made from cowards they are made from those who take great risk where there stands to be even greater gain.

The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is the prerogative of the brave.

The world is ruled by cowards and cravens brave men have put them there.

I traded cowardice for cruelty I traded weakness for ferocity.

Thinking without acting makes you a coward. Acting without thinking makes you insane. You need both the thoughts and actions they never walk alone!

Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.

I'm astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing: it should inhibit me from even beginning. But I get distracted and start doing something. What I achieve is not the product of an act of my will but of my will's surrender. I begin because I don't have the strength to think I finish because I don't have the courage to quit. This book is my cowardice.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

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

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

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

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

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

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men.

He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure.

It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.

There is a huge difference between a coward, and a hero. Cowards never learns from their mistakes. Like many, he masquerades as a dragon, but is a mere drunken fool, blinded by his own pride, and foolishness. And like many, cowards love inflicting pain upon the innocent. Like an ostrich, cowards hides underneath the sand, blocking all kinds of disturbances, critisisms towards them. That is not the case of heroes. Heroes on the other hand learns from their mistakes. Unlike a coward, a hero never

The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

The Ninysh might have resisted a bit harder. I don't mean to imply that they were cowards...," Maurizio said shrugging, clearly implying that the Ninysh were cowards.

One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

Hereditary boundsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?

And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell!

In a free country there is much clamor with little suffering in a despotic state there is little complaint with much grievance.

For what avail the plough or sail Or land or life if freedom fail?

Ay call it holy ground The soil where first they trod They have left unstained what there they found - Freedom to worship God.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me As He died to make men holy let us die to make men free While God is marching on.

I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.

And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God cannot long retain it.

... That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom.

Since the general civilization of mankind I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs or impede their efforts to obtain it.

We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.

I always take credit for my acts of cruelty. To do otherwise is cowardice.

Such a brute should underneath all his braggart tricks, his viciousness, his vileness, be a coward. But I am convinced that he was not. Because even cowardice requires a certain degree of sensitivity, and a certain value for life.

If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.

We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

Coward people are afraid of failure & Failure is afraid of brave people

Only cowards cave. The brave get assassinated.

You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. You’ve never turned the wrong to right. You’ve been a coward in the fight.

In short Donald Trump lies compulsively in large part because of who and what he is - a coward. This is why Mike Brzezinski said recently, "He brings nothing to the table.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

Cowards are always much more dangerous than heroes.

Politics really must be a rotten profession considering what awful moral cowards most politicians become as soon as they get the job.

Explanations are for cowards.

Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

* *Do remember that dishonesty and cowardice always have to be paid for.*Don’t imagine that for years on end you can make yourself the boot-licking propagandist of the Soviet régime, or any other régime, and then suddenly return to mental decency. Once a whore, always a whore.

The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party and of course in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

Pacifism is a virtue indistinguishable from cowardice.

Mercy and cowardice are the same," she snapped out. "But you want their land, not their lives, no? Dead men can't obey.

I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.

A cowardly critique starts with a compliment.

People run away from the love game because they know they won't win the race.

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.

There is nothing like a conflict to do the difficult work for you. It is an underrated remedy, cowardly as we are, but it makes everything so much easier.

Most men wait to move until victory is guaranteed.

...For I do now know that it is cowardly. We do not have the right to think only of poetry on this earth. It is magical, but utterly selfish.

The thing about me is – essentially, I’m a coward.I am. I can’t stand weird stuff, anything that’s not normal. […]I’m a coward, and I’ve faced it, and I’ve learn to accept it. And I’m okay with that, as long as nothing happens so I have to start feeling ashamed about it, or guilty.I don’t think my parents know this about me. […]But the other thing is, I just hate it when people are disappointed in me.

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener;

For the next two weeks, the world and all other issues would be omitted. We were two people alone in a hospital room. We allowed no visitors. We had two weeks of near-silence with each other and my increasing helplessness. I tended to tangle the IV and misplace the oxygen tube. As I started to say earlier, I could feel no sensible interest in the future. The moments became extraordinarily dimensionless - not without value but flat and a great deal emptier. When you learn you're fatally ill, time

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Each man must administer his hatred cautiously. Mine is equitable. I distribute it evenly among those who are frozen in the past and those who perspire in the present. Because while the former are hemorrhoidal in their sensibility, the latter are constipated in the brain. And they complement each other by both betraying the law of life that demands the immediate defecation of all useless detritus, be it antiquated illusion or contemporary cowardice.

Haters and bullies are always cowards, you know. They like to pick on little guys.

If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you commit suicide than to be dragged along like a donkey.

You can't be a man and a coward at the same time.

If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.

Men can be pitiless towards a woman whose body has eluded them, particularly if this is thanks to their own cowardice.

Bold people dance happily when they are confronted with life’s adventures... they see themselves going through with smiles... Give no excuse for being a coward. Be bold!

People with positive attitude can see great things even in worse situations. Only cowards give up because the worst happened to them.

To the cowards, change is a want; to the weak, change is a wish; but to the brave, change is a must. People who put change ahead of all things are those who make a difference!

Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the stronger sex...

Do I know you? I know you clear through. I was born and raised in the South, and I’ve lived in the North; so I know the average all around. The average man’s a coward.

The war on Christmas is waged of weakness and fed by vision blinded. It is a war of intellect blunted to stupidity and calling begging at the feet of cowardice.

The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.

Don't be afraid of the dark." She tousled his hair tolerantly. "I've never known a man who wasn't scared of more things than I was.

She loved sinking into her bed on evenings like this, but apparently she shouldn't, because it worried her aunts, who thought she ought to be out dancing. It worried her a little bit, too, because what if they were right, and because sometimes a great loneliness welled up in her and threatened all the dams she built to hold it back. You couldn't cure loneliness by wallowing in it, up above the world, on an island removed from everything. She knew that. But she had such a hard time with all the c

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight!""Well, I am," said Sal. "So can we go... please?

Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.

A man don't need to act tough if he is. Men that put on a show are spineless more often than not.

You can't throw kindling on a fire and deny you kept it burning. And right now, cowardice is that kindling.

I never asked to be a king: it was pushed on me. So if you are going to say 'Son of St Louis: gird on the sword of your ancestors, and lead us to victory' you may spare your breath to cool your porridge; for I cannot do it. I am not built that way; and there is an end of it.

What a man dares to do, he should dare to confess- unless he is a coward.

Don't go confusing stupidity with guts.

Cowards never dare to love.

Write on your doors the saying wise and old,"Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere-- "Be bold;Be not too bold!" Yet better the excessThan the defect; better the more than less;Better like Hector in the field to die,Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly,

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice...