The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The coward, afraid of the lash, with one hand wipes his eyes and gives with the other. Of what avail are such… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly? — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Don’t just live to narrate the stories of your cowardice. Someone will tell a better story of how you died rather than… — Ayaz Ahmed Kohli Copy Share Image
It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“To love is to risk. To not love is also to risk. Yet when it comes to love, the greatest risk is incurred when… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to.… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“What--has O-Tar seen an ulsio and fainted?" demanded I-Gos with broad sarcasm. "Men have died for less than that, ancient one," E-Thas… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Unlike the beasts of the wild, the many cruel varieties of human monsters, when at last cornered, seldom fight with greater ferocity.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The hoopoe said: 'Your heart's congealed like ice; When will you free yourself from cowardice? Since you have such a short time… — Attar of Nishapur Copy Share Image
“Your weak side, my diabolic friend, is that you have always been a gull: you take Man at his own valuation. Nothing… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“You were burning in the middle of the worst solar storm our records can remember. (...) Everyone else fled. All your companions… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
We do not choose to be born.We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of our death.… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
“She has her helmet, shield and sword. Does she finish him or take pity on the gutless thing before her? Does she… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
In my view, Jan Masaryk was thoroughly corrupt, who bumped himself off because he saw at last where his moral cowardice and… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Humanity from the first has had its vultures and sharks, and representatives of the fraternity who prey upon mankind may be expected… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To act without knowledge is folly, to know without acting is cowardice. — Dominique Pire Copy Share Image
Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“She opened her eyes- closing them was cowardice, and the Carstairs were not cowards.” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
