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Cowardice Quotes by Paulo Coelho
- When we renounce our dreams, we find peace and enjoy a brief period of tranquillity, but the dead dreams begin to rot inside us and…
- Playing the part of a charitable soul was only for those who were afraid of taking a stand in life. It is always far easier…
- I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change.
- People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.
- Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.
- The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay…
- The only reason I don't throw myself into your arms, kiss you and make love with you now is that I lack the courage and…
More Cowardice Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. — Jean Baudrillard
- Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. — Miguel de Cervantes
- At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. — Mahatma Gandhi
- The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we are constantly… — Chogyam Trungpa
- You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty… — Sun Tzu
- The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice. — Charles Lamb