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Letter "C" » cowardice
«Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.»
Author: Daisaku Ikeda
(Activist, Buddhist Leader)
| About:
Cowardice,
Happiness,
Strength,
Victory
| Keywords:
continuing, cowardice, outcome, regardless, short-term, term, wage
«Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do not feel, they call it being tactful. Cowardice would be a much better name.»
Author: Frank Medlicott
| About:
Mistakes
| Keywords:
agreement, cowardice, feign, feigning, in agreement, tact, tactful, weakness
«Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.»
Author: Margaret Chase Smith
(Senator)
| Keywords:
cowardice, irresponsible, moral character, The Popular, the right way, unpopular
«They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
cowardice, obvious, piece, suicide, Telling the World, Tell the World, title, titled, unassailable
«Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live»
«The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.»
«There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Fashion
| Keywords:
A level, conformist, conformists, cowardice, fashionable, lower
«Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice»
«There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
against, cowardice, protections, several, surest, temptations, There are, The Temptations
«That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
breasts, cowardice, entitle, pale
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