#cow

If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bravery #commitment #consequences #courage #courageous

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. ↗

— Herodotus

#cowardice #courage

Do not be afraid. Because if you let these fears consume you, you’ll most likely fail even before everything else starts. ↗

— Veronica Mist

#cowardice #inspirational #courage

Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice. ↗

— William Faulkner

#cowardice #courage

The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party and of course in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#the-west #united-nations #weakness #courage

The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage. ↗

— Charles M. Blow

#cowardice #courage

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

— Norman Mailer

#cowardice #courage

You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward! ↗

— Homer

#cowardice #death #greece #war #death

He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#death #life #philosophy #suicide #death

I'm watching a dream I'll never wake up from. -Spike Speigel ↗

— Keiko Nobumoto

#dreams #life #spike-speigel #steven-blum #dreams