Cowardly Quote by Michel de Montaigne Download Open image “Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.” — Michel de Montaigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cowardly Disappointment Inspirational Love Virtue
Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you are gentled and quieted in your heart, you are incapable of relating to disappointment, incapable of feeling sorry for your self. — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We must surrender our hopes and expectations, as well as our fears, and march directly into disappointment, work with disappointment, go into it, and… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A love to Christ which is so cowardly and selfish that it is unwilling to proclaim by a public confession its faith in Him… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical,… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
“You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue.” — Dee Remy Copy Share Image
I believe that women are many different types of people. There are brave women, there are cowardly women, there are altruistic women, there are… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Mohammed knew that most people are terribly cowardly and stupid. That is why he promised two beautiful women to every courageous warrior who dies… — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
