Quotes About Cowardice

Amar es cansarse de estar solo: es, por lo tanto, una cobardía y una traición a nosotros mismos.

To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It's exceedingly important that we not love).

I begin because I don't have the strength to think; I finish because I don't have the courage to quit. This book is my cowardice.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

Terrorism is not a sign of courage. It means cowardice.

sociales, la envidia y la cobardía. Si esos rebaños se compusieran de bestias corajudas lo hubieran hecho pedazos todo. Creer en el montón es creer que se puede tocar la luna con la mano. Vea lo que le pasó a Lenin con el campesino ruso. Pero ya está todo organizado y no cabe otra cosa

People see what they want to see and what people want to see never has anything to do with the truth. People are cowards to the last breath. I'm telling you between you and me: the human being, broadly speaking, is the closest thing there is to a rat.

Bastard," she spat at him, and she thought he had moved closer. She swung at him, and then suddenly he was where he had been standing all along, the coward.

Battle death to your last breath and even unknown, you are a hero. Whimper your way into darkness and your name will become a taunt of cowardice.

In their mutual desire for a professional army and a strong central authority that would mitigate local rivalries, the two men felt the first stirrings of an impulse that would someday culminate in the Constitution and the Federalist party. Like Washington, Hamilton was scandalized by the dissension and cowardice, the backstabbing and avarice, of the politicians in Philadelphia while soldiers were dying in the field.

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice

In trying to stop your tears, I was already obeying the officer's command to the letter, not out of patriotic allegiance, but out of cowardice, in order not to feel the pain of my own heart, breaking.

No one is born to courage, Juliet. Courage is a habit you develop after cowardice has gotten you nothing.

Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.

Order or disorder depends on organisation and direction; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on tactical dispositions.

Apparent confusion is a product of good order; apparent cowardice, of courage; apparent weakness, of strength.

We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.

At bottom the character of M. Bonacieux was one of profound selfishness mixed with sordid avarice, the whole seasoned with extreme cowardice.

COWARD, n. One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

How was it that no one had ever told her that it was not love itself, but its treacherous gatekeepers which made the greatest demands on your courage: the panic of acknowledging it; the terror of declaring it; the fear of being rebuffed? Why had no one told her that love's twin was not hate but cowardice?

A coward's just a man with the proper respect for sharp metal,

Loyalty is an admirable quality,' said Barezin. 'Admirable. But it must cut both ways.' 'Loyalty to a corrupt regime,' added Heugen, 'is foolishness . Worse. Cowardice. Worse! It's dis loyalty!

Enough pain makes a coward of anyone.