"The thing that cowardice fears most is decision" — Soren Kierkegaard
"The thing that cowardice fears most is decision"
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Soren Kierkegaard
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358 Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard has 358 quotes on this site.
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When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".
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Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully…
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Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand…
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what…
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I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when…
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Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.
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Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition…
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The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.
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To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees…
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People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way…
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Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but…
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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,…
— Aristotle
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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice.…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness,…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture;…
— Sun Tzu
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The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
— Charles Lamb
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