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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
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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
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
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
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
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
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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