#coward

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#coward #dares #fear #known #never

I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#coward #dark #frightened #i #small

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#bear #below #coward #equal #ever

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#humility #indeed #meekness #powers #spiritual

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. ↗

— Horace Smith

#courage #coward #fear #thought

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. ↗

— August Strindberg

#bite #cowards #dogs #got #guts

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves. ↗

— August Strindberg

#courage #cowards #disliked #dogs #fight

I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight!" "Well, I am," said Sal. "So can we go... please? ↗

— Alex Scarrow

#bravery #cowardice #eternal-war #humor #humor

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” And Vanity comes along and asks the question, “Is it popular?” But Conscience asks the question, “Is it right?”... The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience, but where he stands in moments of challenge, moments of great crisis and controversy. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#cowardice

As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or whomever he had to, to avoid risking exposure to physical violence. Shame never came into it. He embraced his new identity as a coward. He would run in the other direction. He would lie down and cry and put his arms over his head or play dead. It didn't matter what he had to do, he would do it and be glad. ↗

— Lev Grossman

#cowardice #fear #martial-heroics #physical-violence #playing-dead