#coward

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice. ↗

— Randall Terry

#context #cowardice #justify #out #retreat

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#because #bottom #bravery #courage #cowardice

I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#coward #enough #i #lazy #oddly

You cannot be a hero without being a coward. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#cannot #coward #hero #without #you

We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason. ↗

— Philip Kearny

#declaration #enemy #follow #full #i

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#brave #coward #either #him #man

If you don't make a few ememies now and then, you're a coward-or worse. Besides, it as worth it to see his reaction. Oh, he was angry! - Angela to Eragon ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#bravery #cowardice #humor #anger

Like all bullies and marauders, Gos was a coward at heart ↗

— L. Frank Baum

#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