#cowardice

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. ↗

— Plutarch

#courage #cowardice #excess #halfway #lack

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

* *Do remember that dishonesty and cowardice always have to be paid for.*Don’t imagine that for years on end you can make yourself the boot-licking propagandist of the Soviet régime, or any other régime, and then suddenly return to mental decency. Once a whore, always a whore. ↗

— George Orwell

#hypocrisy #journalism #poland #stalin #warsaw-uprising

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#inspirational #intolerance #tolerance #inspirational

Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit. ↗

— Jerome Cady

#fear #fellow #him #his #lets

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#cowardice #halfway #just #lies #rashness

Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow. ↗

— Veronica Franco

#act #amongst #be the first #cowardice #death

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#conformity #cowardice #dead #even #fish

Where the brave don't have the guts to question their immortal duty, cowards are rash about survival. ↗

— Bauvard

#cowardice #funny #humor #rashness #courage

Life is too short to cower. ↗

— Claire Cross

#cowardice #live #courage