A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no future state, yet, even then, it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward. Blessed beyond all earthly blessedness is the man who, in the tempestuous darkness of the soul, has dared to hold fast to these venerable landmarks. Thrice blest is he who, when all is dreary and cheerless within and without, when his teachers terrify him, and friends shrink from him, has obstinately clung to moral good.
It's because I am a coward. At school, when there were fights, I'd run away. I have always been scared of physical violence. Perhaps that's the reason. But it also angers me to see gratuitous violence, wrapped up like chewing gum to be consumed. It's irritating it's cynical.
We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, or the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die nor do we choose the time or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or adrift. We decide what is important and what is trivial in life. We decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do. But no matter how indifferent the universe may be to our choices and decisions, these choices and decisions are ours to make. We decide. We choose. And as we decide and choose, so are our lives formed. In the end, forming our own destiny is what ambition is about.
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe the former is disturbing,
When the blandishments of life are gone, the coward creeps to death - the brave lives on
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
Oh, Mr Coward, sir - I could never have an affair with you, because you remind me of my father!
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
Be not intimidated, therefore, by any terrors, from publishing with the utmost freedom whatever can be warranted by the laws of your country nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberty by any pretenses of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die.
There grows No herb of help to heal a coward heart.
Go, coward as thou art.
God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.
That could have been your sister, your brother, your mother -- anybody. That's just being a straight coward.
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
He was not necessarily a coward, though, perhaps, a man of untried nerve.
Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.
It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
These new crimes are hardly surprising to those of us who recognized the fraud behind the war from the very beginning and the vote obstruction in the 2004 national election. As the mountain of evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors has grown, so has the cowardice of the Democratic Party leadership.
I didn't see it, not at all. Like I said, if you are going to play a football game, don't be a coward and wait until you make one play and do something. Just play football. His celebration doesn't mean anything.
An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
They insisted on two things. 'Don't impersonate Coward. And never change his words.' I think we met their demands.
We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least but one thing is not said that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens. Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda.
In our relations with Russia you need to be patient and avoid provocations, but if events like the recent ones take place, you have to tell the truth -- cowardice is only an encouragement.
Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.
That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved A coward.
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.
Thy counsel, lad, smells of no cowardice.
Some servants of the regime have chosen to fill their final days with acts of cowardice and murder, ... In combat, Saddam's thugs shield themselves with women and children. They have killed Iraqi citizens who welcome coalition troops. They force other Iraqis into battle by threatening to torture or kill their families.
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!
The gods do this in shame of cowardice.
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