#cowardice

When in doubt chicken out. ↗

— Robin Jones Gunn

#inaction #cowardice

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice. ↗

— André Gide

#fear #ridicule #cowardice

But by God, he was going to stop running from his cowardice. He had to own his shit - even if it made him hate himself to the core. Because maybe if he did, he'd stop trying to distract himself with sex and drinking, and figure out what he did want. Apart from Blay, that was. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#black-dagger-brotherhood #lover-unleashded #qhuinn #cowardice

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

— Cassandra Clare

#jace #cowardice

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#courage #cowardice #feelings #love #measure

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#cowardice #fashionable #level #lower #than

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#cowardice #every #every man #greatest #his

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#did #give #god #spirit #you

Ah, you coward! Look at you, running." "Actually, it's called improvising. ↗

— Jonathan Stroud

#humor #improvising #humor

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#inspirational #intolerance #tolerance #inspirational