Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don’t have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.

Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so...

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.–“Wanda

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Humour is for them the all-consoling and (mark this) the all-excusing, grace of life. Hence, it is invaluable as a means of destroying shame. If a man simply lets others pay for him, he is...

It’s my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

Blood has an oder faint but distinct, of conceit and modesty, of courage and cowardice, of charity and greed, of faith and doubt, in short the fragrance of what we might have been and the...

… the courage of one’s opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the ‘other side’…

Excuses are a promise of repetition.

There is no love.” Because, standing in the shadows of the big, grand, and powerful existence of love, his small spirit is left feeling even smaller and less significant. And so he chooses to deny...

The big, burly oaf offended my girl, so without hesitation I rushed to her defense. I did, however, make a few stops along the way, and by the time I got home and back, the...

You can’t be a man and a coward at the same time.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.

people often mistake cautiousness for cowardice. and vice versa.

The hoopoe said: ‘Your heart’s congealed like ice;When will you free yourself from cowardice?Since you have such a short time to live here,What difference does it make? What should you fear?The world is filth and...

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.

You’re gutless. It’s how you were made. And that’s not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you’ve never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as...

The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: “Human Nature”.

He who fights with guns and knives is a coward! For how easy is it to kill with the single pull of a trigger? And how does human flesh stand to a sharpened metal? Even...

I’d never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn’t see how that wasn’t cowardice…

Those who are brave, are the greatest cowards of all. For they fear failure.

If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you commit suicide than to be dragged along like a donkey.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

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

But often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.

Goldstein, you’d be a pretty good boy if you wasn’t so chicken.

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener;

I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with...

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

People with positive attitude can see great things even in worse situations. Only cowards give up because the worst happened to them.

Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the stronger sex…

Most men wait to move until victory is guaranteed.

Man is weak. Purpose makes him strong.

The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.

Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned...

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.

There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general:(1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction;(2) cowardice, which leads to capture;(3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults;(4) a delicacy of honor which is...

Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.

Son, never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the...

I think before I act—and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.

A cowardly critique starts with a compliment.