Order or disorder depends on organisation; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on dispositions. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too.” — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“(…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or… — Jim Mattis Copy Share Image
Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Leaving others alone is a sign of cowardice, whether you are involved in a war or in a relationship.” — Pratik Akkawar Copy Share Image
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. — Brooke Westcott Copy Share Image
In every mind where there is a strong tendency to fear there is a strong capacity to hate. Those who dwell in… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
“How was it that no one had ever told her that it was not love itself, but its treacherous gatekeepers which made… — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
“Time is theft, isn't that what they say? And time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear…” — Four from Divergent Copy Share Image
Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It hurts to love someone and unrequited, but whats most painful is to never find the courage to tell that person. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Everyone appears to be courageous until bad weathers arrive, and then we know the true leaders.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong. — Shailer Mathews Copy Share Image
“I'm a fucking coward." "Maybe." Craw jerked his thumb over his shoulder at Whirrun's corpse. "There's a hero. Tell me who's better… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they dont deserve them, or that theyll be unable… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit. — Jerome Cady Copy Share Image
The lack of will to do what is right is tantamount to moral cowardice and a doubling of victim trauma. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You can't throw kindling on a fire and deny you kept it burning. And right now, cowardice is that kindling.” — Ilana Waters Copy Share Image
Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right? — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
“So answer me, are you merely a cowardly Moses, pointing the way to the Promised Land but poisoned by doubt and so… — Tony Vigorito Copy Share Image
Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A curse on him who begins in gentleness. He shall finish in insipidity and cowardice, and shall never step foot in the… — Andre Trocme Copy Share Image
“What we call cowardice is often just another name for being taken by surprise, and courage is seldom any better than simply… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
