Cowardice Quote by Michel de Montaigne Download Open image “Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.” — Michel de Montaigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cowardice
Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I don't think human beings are bad. They're weak. And that's what makes 'em bad. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
People are often very limiting to themselves and can be their own worst enemy. — Alex Wolff Copy Share Image
Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved. — Ernest Hemingway 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
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… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
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… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
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… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“People run away from the love game because they know they won't win the race.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
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