Action Quote by Thucydides

Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt…

— Plutarch

What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn him with…

— William Shakespeare

Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just…

— Thucydides

“opprobrious term, employed to impose contempt upon”

— Jabari Asim

Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to…

— Michael Ignatieff

Every person of any rank in the left, from voter on up to cabinet member to elected official in the Democrat Party, has contempt.…

— Rush Limbaugh

Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have…

— Diane Johnson

Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt,…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled…

— Mark the Evangelist

Somebody once told me that if you laugh at a George Bush joke, or you send an email cartoon to your friends that makes…

— Harold Ramis

There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we…

— Francois Fenelon

Show your contempt for the problem and your concern for the person.

— Jim Rohn