cowardice

Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the stronger sex...

Leaving others alone is a sign of cowardice, whether you are involved in a war or in a relationship.

I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?

This cult of the future is not only a weakness but a cowardice of the age.

A coward: a man or woman who is unsatisfied by his condition and believes he was destined to accept it that way

I once knew a man who was heir to the throne of a great kingdom, he lived as a ranger and fought his destiny to sit on a throne but in his blood he was a king. I also knew a man who was the king of a small kingdom, it was very small and his throne very humble but he and his people were all brave and worthy conquerors. And I knew a man who sat on a magnificent throne of a big and majestic kingdom, but he was not a king at all, he was only a cowardly steward. If you are the king of a great kingdom, you will always be the only king though you live in the bushes. If you are the king of a small kingdom, you can lead your people in worth and honor and together conquer anything. And if you are not a king, though you sit on the king__ throne and drape yourself in many fine robes of silk and velvet, you are still not the king and you will never be one.

I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with the blind worship of the ignoble past, with the idea that all the great and good are dead, that the living are totally depraved, that all pleasures are sins, that sighs and groans are alone pleasing to God, that thought is dangerous, that intellectual courage is a crime, that cowardice is a virtue, that a certain belief is necessary to secure salvation, that to carry a cross in this world will give us a palm in the next, and that we must allow some priest to be the pilot of our souls.

Man is weak. Purpose makes him strong.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".

Excuses are a promise of repetition.

we do not ask. We want to be told. One of the most curious things in the structure of our psyche is that we all want to be told because we are the result of the propaganda of ten thousand years. We want to have our thinking confirmed and corroborated by another, whereas to ask a question is to ask it of yourself.

Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves--their convictions and their aspirations--every day. There is nothing noble about it. It takes far more courage to fight for your values than to relinquish them.

Every man is sensitive. Some cover it up with brutality, others with cowardice and vanity, but a small few wear it bravely like armor

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.--"Wanda

I wanted to shout down to him, to warn him that he was giving flowers to a monster, but I did not.

humility must not be equated to mediocrity and cowardice

__ass on bravery and wisdom to the future generations, not some ragged traditions and baseless cowardice.