#cowardice

Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#cowardice #courage

You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward! ↗

— Homer

#cowardice #death #greece #war #death

He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#death #life #philosophy #suicide #death

We may place blame, give reasons, and even have excuses; but in the end, it is an act of cowardice to not follow your dreams. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#blame #cowardice #dreams #excuses #follow-your-dreams

It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self. ↗

— Criss Jami

#barricade #coward #cowardice #desert #ego

If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#death #harry-dresden #death

You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#cowardice #freedom #freedom

The coward says in his heart “There is no love.” Because, standing in the shadows of the big, grand, and powerful existence of love, his small spirit is left feeling even smaller and less significant. And so he chooses to deny the existence of love altogether. Because he is too small to have it. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational #inspirational-quotes #love #power-of-love #the-coward

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#morality #pip #wrong

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#doubt #resolve #self-doubt #fear