#cowardly

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

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#cowardly #fat #fight #man #run

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire. ↗

— Larry Brown

#fire #firefighter #honorable #life #live

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#between #cowardly #fight #own #quarrel

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#end #get #his #man #only

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#ashamed #brave #cowardly #evasive #eyes

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#cowardly #defenseless #gossip #ignorant #instead

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. ↗

— David Mamet

#being #being lazy #cowardly #i #lazy

No, I'm not at all adventurous. I'm terribly cowardly. ↗

— Roger Moore

#cowardly #i #terribly

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#man #men #say #stupid #stupidity