Cowardice Quote by Daniel Defoe Download Open image “Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.” — Daniel Defoe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cowardice Death Destruction Dying Effects Esteem Extremes Highest Self Self destruction Self esteem
Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Self-destruction can be cathartic in the worst ways possible.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love. — Cassia Leo Copy Share Image
Violence appears to be most commonly a result of threatened egotism -- that is, highly favorable views of self that are disputed by some… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined… — Bertha von Suttner Copy Share Image
The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Strah od opasnosti je deset tisuća puta snažniji nego sama opasnost kad se pojavi pred očima.” — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“He told me it was for men of desperate fortunes on one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortune on the other, who when abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprize, and make themselves famous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road; that these things were all either too far above me, or to far below me; that… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share
“From this moment I began to conclude in my mind that it was possible for me to be more happy in this forsaken, solitary… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“was to prepare more land, for I had now seed enough to sow above an acre of ground. Before I did this, I had a week's work at least to make me a spade, which, when it was done, was but a sorry one indeed, and very heavy, and required double labour to work with it. However, I got through… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share
Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“and in that one night's wickedness I drowned all my repentance,all my reflections upon my past conduct,and all my resolution for the future.” — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.” — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they call it to take the first good Christian that comes; that runs into matrimony, as a horse rushes into battle; I can say nothing to them, but this, that they are a sort of ladies that are to… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share
“It is as reasonable to represent one kind of imprisonment by another as it is to represent anything that really exists by that which… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice… Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without… — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
“To stand at the very moment when all seems lost is the point of insanity for the coward, but it is the home of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough 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. Breaking through… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“I once knew a man who was heir to the throne of a great kingdom, he lived as a ranger and fought his destiny to sit on a throne but in his blood he was a king. I also knew a man who was the king of a small kingdom, it was very small and his throne very humble but… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share
Man alone mesures time. And because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running… — Anonymous 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
“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. Today, wrapped in the complacent armor of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal pricks of day by day brush one lightly and are soon forgotten,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share
Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share
“People run away from the love game because they know they won't win the race.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
![“[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice… Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without a conscience a man may never be said to grow old. This is an age of very old young men.” quote by Hesketh Pearson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/076/hesketh-pearson-35291_age_d-on-t-grow-old-with-age-comes-caution-w_14010.jpg)
