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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
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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
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
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
A conservative is a man who is
too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- Elbert Hubbard
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
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 friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Every man casts a shadow;
not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit.
This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will,
it falls opposite to the sun;
short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
- Henry David Thoreau
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American
recently passed each other in opposite directions.
- George Carlin
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -
that there is a genetic factor to leadership.
This myth asserts that people simply either
have certain charismatic qualities or not.
That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true.
Leaders are made rather than born.
- Warren G. Bennis
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance
when in reality it is the opposite.
When we can recognize all our good qualities
as well as or faults with neutrality,
we can start to appreciate ourselves
as we would a dear friend
and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect.
To embrace the journey towards our full potential
we need to become our own loving teacher and coach.
Spurring ourselves on to become better human beings,
we develop true regard for ourselves,
and our life will become sacred.
- Osho
Suspended between earth and sky,
my humanity draws from both,
my tendrils reach for the energies of each.
Spirit and Ground - equal yet opposite,
the lightness and the solidarity,
the ephemeral and the substantial.
The substantial is no more and no less
than the ephemeral - merely different.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience
it is necessary for us to do the opposite,
that is to commence with experience
and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
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