Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Your library is your portrait.

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

Man is a dogs idea of what God should be.

Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

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.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.