True courage is completing the things you say while cowardice is just saying the things you wish to complete. — William Barrett Travis Copy Share Image
To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“Music is one way of saying things that you cannot really say to a person face to face, a sign of suppressed… — The Eldest Copy Share Image
If you love something let it go, if it comes back, it belongs to you - a statement said by a coward… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Do you know what the most secret stubbornly-defended part of our identity is? It’s the private concessions we make to our cowardice.” — Glenn Haybittle Copy Share Image
I'm in an abusive relationship with life. It keeps beating the hell out of me and I'm too cowardly to leave it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than… — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
“Cowering behind the fortress of strengths, while evading the gaze of weaknesses, is an act of cowardice. Yet, yielding to the dominance… — Martin Banič Copy Share Image
There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“So she became a woman who held her head high, not in arrogance, or contempt, but because she knew that it was… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
“It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice,… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Despising cowardice in others, I wished to prove myself no coward. Believing in the good, the gentle, the beautiful things of life,… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“Ah, Mr. War, sir. It seems that owing to circumstances completely beyond my control, there's been a bit of a cock up… — Chris Barrie as Arnold Rimmer on Red Dwarf Copy Share Image
You know what a loser is? A real loser is somebody that's so afraid of not winning, they don't even try. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I would like to say that what I fear are the challenges that stand in front of me, when in reality what… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“As I hear him, I understand that he's not more moronic because of the brandy than he is because of his cowardice.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Anyone can say anything about you, whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, it's none of your business. It is… — The Eldest Copy Share Image
Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do… — Frank Medlicott Copy Share Image
“So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
“Some Saian mountaineer Struts today with my shield. I threw it down by a bush and ran When the fighting got hot.… — Archilochus Copy Share Image
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such… — Philip Kearny Copy Share Image
Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo epitomizes the timidity, the… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
“The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Moral Cowardice That Keeps Us From Speaking Our Minds Is As Dangerous As Irresponsible Talk. The Right Way Is Not Always The… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Although they understand their position as sons and daughters of God, they are tied up in knots, bound by a terrible feeling… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is insanity for any man to wish for a different life to the one he has. Such wishes are based upon… — Théun Mares Copy Share Image
“It was as though, so long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Cowardice of this degree is, I know, uncommon. Many people would have to hang by their teeth from a frayed cord suspended… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“All men have a measure of cowardice in them. I learned that love of one's mates can overcome your fears. I learned… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
