Cowardice Quotes - Page 2
Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
"Essais". Book by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 14, 1595.
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1952). “A faith for tough times”
Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.
Rudyard Kipling (1920). “The Jungle Book”, p.274
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.189, Tara Publishing
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.138, Beacon Press
Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.151, Lulu.com
You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself
Swami Vivekananda (1997). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.120, Beacon Press
Sir Walter Raleigh, William Oldys, Thomas Birch (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The life of Sir Walter Ralegh, by William Oldys. The life of Sir Walter Ralegh, by Tho. Birch”, p.360
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1424, Manonmani Publishers
Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.402, Harvard University Press
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.16, Random House