338 Quotes About Cowardice

Unsent letters carry a kind of cruelty. A letter is written as a space shared by two people; by not sending it, its writer claims the power to include and exclude the recipient simultaneously. Out of cowardice or control an act is performed in the name of caring or discretion. Unsent letters should never be written. But what difference is there between an unsent and an unwritten letter? The truth is already there. Self-imposed silence speaks, too, though not to communicate but to punish.

People run away from the love game because they know they won't win the race.

Shakespeare should have said: Fear makes cowards of us all. The fear of being persecuted, ostracized, ridiculed, humiliated, of having to stand alone against the whole world.

To describe him as a sniveling rat would be an insult to the noble rat.

Sometimes we find that responsibly discerning something from a distance is nothing more than cowardice creating an excuse to keep our distance from that which we fear. And when that’s the case, life will shut down our discernment so that we are left with no option but to engage what we would otherwise run from.

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

The conclusion that something is impossible is based on an evaluation of the resources that we possess as held in contrast to the size of the challenge. Yet, over and over the ‘fact’ that something is possible falls to the ‘fiction’ that it is impossible for the simple reason that our fear handily minimizes the former and heartedly exaggerates the latter.

Everyone appears to be courageous until bad weathers arrive, and then we know the true leaders.

When dark situations arise, it is opportunity for you to reveal the leader in you. Rise and deal with them.