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“Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.”

Want Fear Courage Tongue Cowardice

Author:Aeschylus

“It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.”

Want Heart Self Enlightenment Cowardice

Book:Amarance

Source: Amarance

“I'm a hero wid coward's legs, I'm a hero from the waist up.”

Hero Legs Coward Cowardice

Book:Dear Robert, Dear Spike: the Graves-Milligan correspondence

Source: Dear Robert, Dear Spike: the Graves-Milligan correspondence

“My men have become women, but the women men.”

Men Women Courage Cowardice

Author:Herodotus

“We are too ready (women especially) not to stand by what we have said or done.”

Said Done Ready Cowardice

Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.”

Men Sex Strength Men And Women Female Fairs Weak Strongest Despise Cowardice Cowardly

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Humanity from the first has had its vultures and sharks, and representatives of the fraternity who prey upon mankind may be expected no less in America than elsewhere. That this virulence breaks out most readily and commonly against colored persons in this country, is due of course to the fact that they are, generally speaking, weak and can be imposed upon with impunity. Bullies are always cowards at heart.”

Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

“(I)t is simply wrong to confuse cowardice with appeasement. Cowardice is a failing of character. Appeasement is a failure of policy. Stalin appeased Hitler when he signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Stalin was an evil character, to be sure. But cowardice really isn't the first word that comes to mind when thinking of Stalin ' that word is “sexy.” I'm kidding, I'm kidding.”

Thinking Mind Firsts Character Evil Failing Policy Sexy Cowardice Pact Appeasement Molotov Evil Characters

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.”

Firsts Character Coward Cowardice Kindred

Book:The Major Works

Source: The Major Works

“Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits.”

World Long Has Beens Bits Blessing Cowardice Torn

Author:Mason Cooley

“Often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.”

Way Heart Asks Honor Graves Cowardice

Author:James Rollins

“What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that two stickout above all others. One is his curious and apparently incurable incompetence--his congenital inability to do any difficult thing easily and well, whether it be isolating a bacillus or writing a sonata. The other is his astounding susceptibility to fears and alarms--in short, his hereditary cowardice.... There is no record in history of any Anglo-Saxon nation entering upon any great war without allies.”

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“Better it were not to live than to live a coward.”

Coward Cowardice

Book:The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The life of Sir Walter Ralegh, by William Oldys. The life of Sir Walter Ralegh, by Tho. Birch

Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The life of Sir Walter Ralegh, by William Oldys. The life of Sir Walter Ralegh, by Tho. Birch

“To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice.”

Conditions Miserable Coward Cowardice Delinquency

Author:David Dudley Field II

“It is cowardice to commit suicide.”

Suicide Commit Cowardice

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“True devotion must not get dispirited; nor elated or satisfied with lesser gains; it must fight against failure, loss, calumny, calamity, ridicule and against egoism and pride , impatience and cowardice .”

Fighting Loss Pride Gains Satisfied Devotion Cowardice Ridicule Calamity Impatience Egoism Calumny

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates into guilty cowardice.”

Ifs Sometimes Hands Law Christianity Draws Raises Guilty Obedience Tyrants Cowardice Bondage Degenerates Hands Of God Raise Up

Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

“A coward's courage is in his tongue.”

Tongue Coward Cowardice

Author:Edmund Burke

“Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.”

Fear Painful Cowardice True Courage

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“Cowards' weapons neither cut nor pierce.”

Cutting Weapons Coward Cowardice Pierce

Author:Pietro Metastasio

“In every mind where there is a strong tendency to fear there is a strong capacity to hate. Those who dwell in fear dwell nest door to hate; and I think it is the cowardice of women which makes them such intense haters.”

Thinking Mind Hate Strong Fear Doors Capacity Intense Tendencies Cowardice Nests

Book:A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

“Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it.”

Persons Courage Cowardice Contagious Liable

Author:George D. Prentice

“Really, one of us ought to have the courage to call the experiment off and shoulder the responsibility for the decision, but the majority reckons that that kind of courage would be a sign of cowardice, and the first step in a retreat. They think it would mean an undignified surrender for mankind as if there was any dignity in floundering and drowning in what we don't understand and never will.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Kind Mean Would Be Decision Responsibility Steps Mankind Ought Dignity Majority Surrender Experiments Shoulders Cowardice First Steps Retreat Drowning Floundering

Author:Stanislaw Lem

“It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate, from cowardice, all the evils which we encounter; they are great, but our sensibility increases them. The true way to bear them is to yield ourselves up with confidence to God.”

Thinking Men Way Long Self Night Evil Sleep Bears Self Love Sick Increase Ill Sensitive Encounters Yield Cowardice Sensibility Sick Man

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?”

Asks Safe Conscience Cowardice Expediency

Author:William Morley Punshon

“Despising cowardice in others, I wished to prove myself no coward. Believing in the good, the gentle, the beautiful things of life, I addressed myself to the sweet duty of keeping these attributes for my children's sake and my own. And in striving to provide a living for them, I found a success beyond my wildest dreams.”

“Bravery escapes more dangers than cowardice.”

Danger Bravery Cowardice

Author:Joseph Alexandre Pierre de Segur, Viscount of Segur

“To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).”

Wish Virtue Solitude Cowardice

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

“Lieutenant al-Kaseasbeh's dedication, courage and service to his country and family represent universal human values that stand in opposition to the cowardice and depravity of ISIL, which has been so broadly rejected around the globe.”

Humans Has Beens Country Values Universal Opposition Als Cowardice Dedication Globes Rejected Depravity Human Values Lieutenants Isil

Author:Barack Obama

“Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.”

Men Values Passion Shame Envy Foolish Cowardice Vicious Boast

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.”

Men Giving Sometimes Passion Effects Birth Bravery Contrary Resolution Cowardice Boldness Avarice Levity

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“All around me is cowardice and deceit.”

Deceit Cowardice

Author:Nicholas II of Russia

“Lion is a beautiful creature. It's a wonderful creature. But it's easy outrage. And I also believe that this kind of outrage is a consequence of a moral cowardice in the face of other evil, that you transfer your impotence about other - in other arenas to this, because you know that people will agree with you that this is really bad, but there are serious outrages out there that are bigger than a lion.”

People Knows Believe Kind Beautiful Faces Evil Easy Moral Wonderful Serious Creatures Consequence Bigger Agree Lions Cowardice Arena Outrage Transfers Impotence Beautiful Creatures

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God.”

God Belief Cowardice Belief In God

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God.”

God Sin Weakness Guilty Denial Cowardice Oath

Book:The Penguin Gandhi Reader

Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader

“Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.”

Together Ill Possession Cowardice Nonviolence Impossibility Fearlessness

Book:All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.”

Religion Force Threat Conversion Cowardice

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion.”

Bravery Brave Nationalism Cowardice Unworthy

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.”

Divine Coward Cowardice Divine Wisdom

Book:None High: None Low

Source: None High: None Low

“Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?”

Fighting Greater Proof Coward Cowardice

Book:Communal Unity

Source: Communal Unity

“No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.”

People World Military Protect Police Coward Cowardice

Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

“It was the cowards who died many times before their death.”

Died Coward Cowardice

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.”

Together Ill Coward Cowardice Nonviolence

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.”

Use Would Be Fighting Force Bravery Meetings Coward Cowardice Physical Force Emasculation

Book:The Way to Communal Harmony

Source: The Way to Communal Harmony

“The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.”

Difficult Violence Dangerous Type Habit Truth Is Subtle Coward Cowardice Physical Violence

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.”

Care Running Leaving Dear Take Care Temples Coward Running Away Cowardice Fear Of Death Dear Ones Irreligion

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.”

Imagination Ability Courage Cowardice Coward And Courage

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.”

Humans Wells Survival Appreciation Beloved Cowardice

Book:Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

Source: Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

“Statesmen exhibit five key commitments: 1) A commitment to principles above politics; 2) An ability to compromise without abandoning principle; 3) A commitment to truth over spin; 4) A commitment to courage over cowardice; and 5) A commitment, or willingness, to give up power.”

Giving Political Politics Term Ability Principles Five Keys Giving Up Commitment Compromise Willingness Cowardice Statesmen Exhibits Term Limits

Author:Tom Coburn

“The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.”

Political Courage Revolution Opposites Bravery Conformity Cowardice Conform Be Brave Nonconformity Conformist Bravery And Courage Nonconformist

Book:The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence

Source: The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence

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