The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful. — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“It will never be known what acts of cowardice have been committed for fear of not looking sufficiently progressive.” — Charles Péguy Copy Share Image
Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You always see the guys who go, 'Walk away from a fight,' and people look at him and go, 'You're not really… — Frank Mir Copy Share Image
If you see me walking with someone else, it's not because I love him, it's because you're not brave enough to walk… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It wasn't courage that motivated this casual, impersonal manner of treating so much pain; it was a special brand of cowardice...forcing others… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what going on. In fact,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Why do we go? Because we are afraid. Then Why don't we stay? Because our cowardice might diminish us. What do we… — Gerard Sasges Copy Share Image
“I want to attempt a thing like that and am frightened by these trifles," he thought, with an odd smile. "Hm …… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Fear is a cold bastard. The only way to overcome it is to act—to take the first step and just move forward.” — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from… — Plato Copy Share Image
A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men. And out of this disillusionment and turmoil sprang… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: (1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction; (2) cowardice, which leads to capture;… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with… — Ammon Hennacy Copy Share Image
From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
True devotion must not get dispirited; nor elated or satisfied with lesser gains; it must fight against failure, loss, calumny, calamity, ridicule… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Knowledge! What does that mean? Your knowledge is nothing but cowardice. No, really, that's all it is. You just want to put… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The biggest obstacles to our progress exist within our own lives in the form of cowardice and the tendency to give up.… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
There was no room in God's army for the coward heart, no crown awaiting him who put mother or father, sister or… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one… — Pablo Antonio Cuadra Copy Share Image
All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid.… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
“Laziness is almost as compelling as life. The new farce you're having to play crushes you with its banality, and all in… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
Sloth is the great enemy -- the inspirer of cowardice, irresolution, self-pitying grief, and trivial, hairsplitting doubts. Sloth may also be a… — Patanjali Copy Share Image
Cant get up yourself? Dont wait till somebody gives you a hand! Being like that, youll continue to be a wimp. People… — Gokusen Copy Share Image
