#coward

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

— Charles M. Blow

#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 talks pretty big for a gutter wizard," he muttered. "You don't understand at all," said the wizard wearily. "I'm so scared of you my spine has turned to jelly, it's just that I'm suffering from an overdose of terror right now. I mean, when I've got over that then I'll have time to be decently frightened of you. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#fright #humor #rincewind #humor

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. ↗

— Ignazio Silone

#destiny #invention #resigned

Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#fantasy #wicked #men

A coward talks to everyone but YOU. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#insecure-women #paranoid-men #sisterinlaws #sisters #weak

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#doubt #resolve #self-doubt #fear

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become. ↗

— Brooke Foss Westcott

#cowards #crisis #eyes #great #grow

You cannot be a hero without being a coward. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#cannot #coward #hero #without #you

The world has no room for cowards. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#room #world