“Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice. — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
“your soul is sunken in that cowardice that bears down many men, turning their course and resolution by imagined perils, as his… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to… — Kaile Stewart 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
“The most foolish description of the young is that they are rebellious. The truth is that they are a fellowship of cowards.” — Manu Joseph 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
Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is two people because it is a statement of the impasse of dualistic universe which he has created, they… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
'Get along, go along' is not an inspirational philosophy, and only God knows how much moral cowardice it has covered up over… — Molly Ivins 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
“He was a coward at heart, you see, although I never said the word out loud to him —not then and not… — Stephen King 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
What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither… — Ayn Rand 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
The problem about cutting out the best of your heart and giving it to people, is that, It's hurt to do that,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He wasn't a bad person. He didn't want to fight. The trouble was that he'd tried to be part of the larger… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
“It is your cowardice that offends us, Warleader.’ ‘I refuse your challenge, Bakal. As I did that of Riggis, and as I… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ...… — Jean Lorrain 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
“I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself. I walked black streets… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“All of us, I suppose, like to believe that in a moral emergency we will behave like the heroes of our youth,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
