#cowardly

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. ↗

— Robert Burns

#character #complaint #cowardly #despised #enduring

Tradition has made women cowardly. ↗

— Nance O'Neil

#made #tradition #women

There are times when it is more courageous to be cowardly. ↗

— Norman Reilly Raine

#cowardly #more #times

I’m not courageous. In fact, when I shadow box I wear boxing gloves that are outfitted with flashlights. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#courage #cowardly #flashlights #funny #humor

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. ↗

— Ignazio Silone

#destiny #invention #resigned

Fight or flight? If I had wings, there’d be no choice. But since I don’t have wings, I have to rely on my cape, and a long running start.
 ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#cowardice #cowardly #fight #flight #cowardice

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. ↗

— Herodotus

#being #better #boldness #cowardly #evils

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#end #get #his #man #only

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#ashamed #brave #cowardly #evasive #eyes

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly. ↗

— Bill Maher

#airplane #away #been #building #cowardly