#coward

Alec would have said he could have benefited from a bit more in the way of constructive cowardice. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace #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. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#disagree #fear #know #people #those

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#barks #coward #dog #god #his

Humor is the most engaging cowardice. ↗

— Robert Frost

#engaging #humor #most

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#another #another way #anywhere #being #being afraid

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#always #because #cowardice #die #live

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them? ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

#between #choose #cowardice #despair #need

The coward only threatens when he is safe. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#only #safe #threatens

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#coward #difference #hero #sideways #step

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

— Herodotus

#being #better #boldness #cowardly #evils