Quotes About Faint-hearted

The requirements for covert operations weren't for the faint-hearted or overly modest, let me tell you.

Now only a genius can save humanity—not a prophet, no!—a genius who will formulate a new moral ideal. But where is he, this Messiah ? There is nothing left for us but to learn to die with dignity. Cynicism has never saved anyone yet; it's the lot of the faint-hearted.

Why, he's a coward, thought Blackie. He's a blustering poltroon, lily-livered, and full of hot air!

Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally.

There was a lot of fiction I did not enjoy, whose landscapes seemed bland and unevocative, the characters faint-hearted within them, the very words lacking vibrancy.

It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

We would be cowards if we had courage enough.

A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.