Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
“His malice was aimed at himself; with shame and contempt he recollected his "cowardice.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Conscience is just a polite word for cowardice. No civilised man regrets a pleasure.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It’s the biggest cowardice of a man to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her back.” — Derek Adam 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
There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes… — Marie Corelli 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
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Man alone mesures time. And because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far… — Robert Frost 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
“I think if you are a musician, and artist, you have to have a certain courage. Repeating yourself or photocopying other's art...… — Thomas Gabriel Fischer 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
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
“In their school of life it was taught to consider courage an honorable virtue and cowardice the most disgraceful failing. Loving their… — J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean Copy Share Image
True patriots believe that freedom from responsibility is selfishness, freedom from sacrifice is cowardice, freedom from tolerance is prejudice, freedom from stewardship… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Nonconformity is an empty goal, and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence… — William H. Whyte Copy Share Image
I have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Milk-livered man, That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs; Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning Thine… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The Iran War has sharply brought into focus the distinction between two approaches to geopolitics. Faced with a boldly hostile enemy, some… — R. N. Prasher Copy Share Image
The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
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… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I think,' Olympia said slowly, 'that I know you quite well.' She looked down at the deck and added in a carefully… — Laura Kinsale Copy Share Image
To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
