Top 91 Lack Courage Quotes
#1. Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth
the cowards!
Joaquin Miller
#2. Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
Ben Horowitz
#3. Coppi? Is he the one we followed in the Giro del Piemonte? The guy who is as skinny as an asparagus? He doesn't lack courage, I'll give you that, but I think he's kind of fragile.
Gino Bartali
#5. Do not say (your) body is weak and so lack courage. Do not say (you) are dull-witted and cease (training). Do not say complications cause (you) to give up halfway. Do not let circumstances cause you to break off. In all things under heaven, a really determined person will find a solution.
Scott M. Rodell
#6. And only weaklings ... who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#7. Those who lack courage, can't be kind for kindness is a state of courage.
Debasish Mridha
#8. Lack of courage often hinders us from accomplishing the positive things that we would like to do.
Gary Chapman
#9. Could one make up for lack of moral courage by proving physical bravery?
Arthur C. Clarke
#10. A lack of knowledge creates fear. Seeking knowledge creates courage.
Candice Swanepoel
#11. Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
Bryant H. McGill
#12. Group Thinking" or lack of courage to ask the tough and strategic questions is the chief weakness on Boards today.
Pearl Zhu
#13. There are times when I just can't bring myself to sit down and write and I'm never sure whether it's pure laziness or lack of courage - there's always the thought in the back of my mind that my writing won't be good enough.
Kate Cary
#14. There is nothing spiritual about a marriage that uses guilt, blame, shame or religious manipulations to keep a relationship together.
Shannon L. Alder
#15. People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also ... but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER stop.
Steve Maraboli
#16. When things don't add up, either you don't have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.
Shannon L. Alder
#17. You know, being normal isn't a terrible thing," he says.
"It isn't terrible," I agree. "It's just a lack of courage.
Katie Kacvinsky
#18. Cowgirl Courage isn't the lack of fear, but the courage to take action in the face of fear.
J.H. Lee
#19. There was nothing like necessity to supply a lack of nerve.
Helen Nielsen
#20. Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Plutarch
#21. My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.
Fiorello H. La Guardia
#22. You already know enough. So do I. It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and to draw conclusions.
Sven Lindqvist
#24. Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Albert Camus
#25. It's true that we sometimes require our faith to lean on and provide us with strength and courage, but no more than those who lack faith and lean on the truly feeble power of money.
Robert Palasciano
#26. The Berglunds were the super-guilty sort of liberals who needed to forgive everybody so their own good fortune could be forgiven; who lack the courage of their privilege
Jonathan Franzen
#27. Courage wasn't something you were bequeathed at birth, and it wasn't a lack of fright. It was overcoming your fear, because the ones you love mattered more.
Jodi Picoult
#28. I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.
Tom Stoppard
#29. Present-day civilization is suffering from a lack of moral courage. So many people are in the inglorious business of keeping
Dean Merrill
#30. The only reason I don't throw myself into your arms, kiss you and make love with you now is that I lack the courage and am afraid of loving you.
Paulo Coelho
#31. Taking an inventory of mental assets and liabilities, you will discover that your greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence. This handicap can be surmounted - and timidity translated into courage - through the aid of the principle of autosuggestion.
Napoleon Hill
#32. He looked up at the reddening sky and said with a self-deprecating laugh, "You put me to shame, Seraphina. Your bravery always has."
"It's not bravery; it's bullheaded bumbling."
He shook his head, staring off into the middle distance. "I know courage when I see it, and when I lack it.
Rachel Hartman
#34. To be young means to be original, to have remained nearer to the sources of life: it means to be able to stand up and shake off the fetters of an outlived civilization, to dare
where others lack the courage
to plunge again into the elemental.
Thomas Mann
#35. I thought that the main problem in the gay community is the lack of funding, I was wrong. The essential quality that this movement needs is courage and an ideal; without an ideal, nothing is possible.
Nikolay Alexeyev
#36. Perhaps it's not theology we're missing, but rather theological integrity. Many have the knowledge but lack the courage to admit the discrepancy between what we know and how we live.
Francis Chan
#37. Courage, Love, Illusion (or dream, if you will)
he who possesses all three, or two, or at least one of these things wins whatever there is to win; those who lack all three are the failures.
Edward Lewis Wallant
#38. One nurse thought I was "brave." I think she was talking about my steely-eyed, grin-and-bear-it kind of attitude. There were no tears, no complaints from me - a total lack of affect. In a victim, it is courage and thus admirable; in a predator, it is a lack of humanity and instills fear.
M.E. Thomas
#39. When you lack the courage to publicly defend biblical truth, it is a clear testimony that you lack the Holy Spirit. The gift of the Holy Spirit is a gift of no fear.
Felix Wantang
#40. Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
Confucius
#41. You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest.
John Berryman
#43. Anything may be betrayed, anyone may be forgiven. But not those who lack the courage of their own greatness.
Ayn Rand
#44. Death. I've taunted it for years with confidence and courage. It has taken years for me to realize that it wasn't courage at all, it was the complete opposite; weakness. Bad habits and vulgar sensibilities are my disease. The only cure is dignity and shame, how tragic that I seem lack both.
J.C. Wickhart
#45. I knew that these people were not idiots, so the only thing I could attribute their insane response to was a profound lack of courage and intellectual integrity.
Patrick Lencioni
#46. I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I now understand as courage in the work of others as well as in my own work, and I found I was mildly amused or interested by such plays but not deeply engaged or enlightened.
Ellen McLaughlin
#47. It needs a lot of courage to admit to an action that one is ashamed of and knows to be wrong. One's reluctance to hurt someone else is just an excuse; in fact it is lack of courage.
Ivan Klima
#48. I curtsied. 'Thank you, Mr. Stansbury. And I apologize for my lack of grace.'
He bowed. 'Never apologize for being courageous, Miss Withersby.
Siri Mitchell
#49. My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. - Aunt Frances
Alice Hoffman
#50. If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
John Ortberg
#51. The flip side of being a person who never fails at anything is that you never do anything you could fail at. You never do anything risky. There's a certain essential lack of courage among people who seem to be good at everything.
Nathan Hill
#52. You will find that people will always have opinions about your decisions. Don't take it personally, it's simply because they're not courageous enough to take action in their own lives. Be a leader in your life and pay no mind to those who lack the courage to do the same in theirs.
Steve Maraboli
#53. Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
Elbert Hubbard
#54. Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.
Hunter S. Thompson
#55. You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#57. Sometimes we know what we have to do, but we lack the courage to do it. Let us learn from Mary how to make decisions, trusting in the Lord.
Pope Francis
#58. Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.
Jose Saramago
#59. Sadly, far too many politicians in Washington lack the courage to do something to fix our problems. They are worried about the political implications of making the hard choices we so desperately need to cut spending and shrink government.
Matt Salmon
#60. Fear is the lack of faith in one's ability to create powerful solutions.
T.F. Hodge
#61. Don't let your pride or a lack of courage stand in the way of saying you're sorry to people you may have offended.
Sean Covey
#62. He hated dishonesty-- or lack of courage-- more than anything.
Elizabeth Strout
#63. They say courage isn't a lack of fear. It is doing what has to be done, despite your fear." Nicole
Ruth Cardello
#64. Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
Peter Ustinov
#65. There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality.
Susan Mitchell
#66. Most of us have more potential than we will ever develop. What holds us back is often a lack of courage.
Gary Chapman
#67. There is always a philosophy for lack of courage
Albert Camus
#68. You cannot confuse bravery or courage with lack of fear. Real courage, true bravery is doing things in spite of fear, knowing fear.
Maia Wojciechowska
#69. It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage.
Michael Josephson
#70. If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick,
John Cleese
#71. The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
Ludwig Von Mises
#72. Courage is not the lack of fear, it is acting in spite of it
R.Knight
#73. A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.
Criss Jami
#74. I admired her lack of compunction, the courage of her bad manners, the energy of simple rage. Throwing a bag of spaghetti had a simplicity to it, a recklessness, a careless grandeur. It got things over with. I was a long way, then, from being able to do anything like it myself.
Margaret Atwood
#75. I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.
Roald Dahl
#76. I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
August Strindberg
#77. Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning abilities. It takes intellectual daring to discover the truth.
Immanuel Kant
#78. Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we lack both the necessary habits of mind and a sphere of common reference.
Lewis H. Lapham
#79. Change will never happen if you lack the ability and courage to see yourself for who you really are.
Bryant McGill
#80. When you are in love you know no fear or hatred. when you are fearful there is no possibility of love or hatred. And when there is hate, there is only hate.
Christopher Pike
#81. They say that courage isn't a lack of fear. It is doing what has to be done, despite your fear.
Ruth Cardello
#82. Have you ever felt trapped in circumstances, then discovered that the only trap was your own lack of vision, lack of courage, or failure to see that you had better options?
Nick Vujicic
#83. Most people have an abundance of dreams, but lack the courage to follow them. Help them find that courage by inspiring them with yours.
Steve Maraboli
#84. Sometimes letting go is not about a lack of faith in God, but a lack in faith that you have it in yourself to pull off the greatest plan he has in store for you.
Shannon L. Alder
#85. We have the satisfaction of knowing that whatever we did, we did at the time in the best of faith. Of course, we took some bold steps and often did things with much single-mindedness; but this is surely preferable to never putting one's convictions to the test, for lack of will or courage.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#86. The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life.
Jack Johnson
#87. It doesn't take courage to kill someone,' Klaus said. 'It takes a severe lack of moral stamina.
Lemony Snicket
#88. Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.
Gregory Peck
#89. On a visceral level, most of us know what soul loss means. This is the shaman's diagnosis of the root cause of many of our complaints: our lack of energy, our fatigue, our depression, why our immune systems are blown, why we lack enthusiasm and courage for life.
Robert Moss
#90. Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
Pope Leo XIII
#91. In all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other ... People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.
Paulo Coelho
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