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Cowardice
«The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.»
«Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.»
Author: Daisaku Ikeda
(Activist, Buddhist Leader)
| About:
Cowardice,
Happiness,
Strength,
Victory
| Keywords:
continuing, cowardice, outcome, regardless, short-term, term, wage
«Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live»
«A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| About:
Cowardice,
Heroism
| Keywords:
good night, Hero of, indigestion, rainy, restless, supper
«There is, in world affairs, a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| About:
Cowardice,
Strength
| Keywords:
assertion, confession, cowardly, followed, helplessness, steady, truculent, world affairs
«Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| About:
Cowardice
| Keywords:
Almost always, cowardice, functioning, Lack of imagination, suspend, suspending, suspends
«If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.»