Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice. — Ephraim Mirvis Copy Share Image
Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice? — Michael Herr Copy Share Image
Why do people feel comfortable texting you things they would never have the guts to say to your face? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that is the ultimate cowardice, when someone makes your choices for you in an institutional way. And you just say,… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don’t have the courage, or, the intellect, to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
They fled. The American louts fled. Indeed, concerning the fighting waged by the heroes of the Arab Socialist Baath Party yesterday, one… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
Everyone in this world is different, but the people who are truly brave enough to show their differences are considered embarrassing or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility… — John Simon Copy Share Image
Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and… — Soong May-ling Copy Share Image
Before thy undertaking of any design, weigh the glory of thy action with the danger of the attempt; if the glory outweigh… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
India was not a pacifist country at all. India placed great emphasis on the higher value on... on violence. But it was… — Subramanian Swamy Copy Share Image
With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Being strong is not the same as being a strong being. I should know because cowardice runs in my family, as I… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
For peace, with justice and honor, is the fairest and most profitable of possessions, but with disgrace and shameful cowardice, it is… — Polybius Copy Share Image
For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I wanted to shout down to him, to warn him that he was giving flowers to a monster, but I did not.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The man who grounds his action on another's cowardice, is essentially a coward himself.” — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Once we allow our brokenness to become our norm it no longer appears broken, which is the most broken kind of brokenness.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Seeking Help is Not A Sign Of Cowardness. It Is Courage That Allows People To Admit That Some Situations Are Not Meant… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, we've rewarded a sort of cowardice by calling it 'kindness', and this has made us utterly spineless when truth finally hits.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I was confident that I was a special person. But time slowly chips away at life. People don't just die when their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What if there are children who will suffer somehow because I failed to obey God? What if my cowardice costs even one… — Richard Stearns Copy Share Image
Hitting a woman doesn't make you a man with control, it makes you a coward scared of woman putting you in your… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that… — Georges Bidault Copy Share Image
It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don't be over-joyed to the state of oblivion, lest the enemy poison your meal.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
“I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valour so far… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.” — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
“Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
