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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Cowardice.
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it BECAUSE it is right.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
- Thomas Jefferson
Obstacles are like wild animals.
They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.
If they see you are afraid of them...
they are liable to spring upon you;
but if you look them squarely in the eye,
they will slink out of sight.
- Orison Swett Marden
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
A conservative is a man who is
too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is an open question whether any behavior
based on fear of eternal punishment
can be regarded as ethical
or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
- Margaret Mead
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no security on this Earth,
there is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArthur
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
You're only here for a short visit.
So don't forget to stop and smell the roses.
- Walter Hagen
Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Just stop it. Seriously.
Whatever it is. Just stop it.
If only for an hour, a day, a week.
Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse
of what the change would actually look like.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I can only wonder what treasure awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
- Rumi
Forgiveness is the only way to heal
- don Miguel Ruiz
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky
We are rich only through what we give,
and poor only through what we refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William John Bennett
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry Kaiser
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag
We cannot solve a problem by saying,
"It's not my problem."
We cannot solve a problem by hoping that
someone else will solve it for us.
I can solve a problem only when I say,
"This is my problem and it's up to me to solve it.
- M. Scott Peck
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
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