Top 66 Quotes About Lack Of Courage
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. There is always a philosophy for lack of courage
Albert Camus
#4. Most of us have more potential than we will ever develop. What holds us back is often a lack of courage.
Gary Chapman
#5. There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality.
Susan Mitchell
#6. Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
Peter Ustinov
#7. They say courage isn't a lack of fear. It is doing what has to be done, despite your fear." Nicole
Ruth Cardello
#8. He hated dishonesty-- or lack of courage-- more than anything.
Elizabeth Strout
#9. Fear is the lack of faith in one's ability to create powerful solutions.
T.F. Hodge
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Those who lack courage, can't be kind for kindness is a state of courage.
Debasish Mridha
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
Pope Leo XIII
#17. 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
#18. Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.
Gregory Peck
#19. It doesn't take courage to kill someone,' Klaus said. 'It takes a severe lack of moral stamina.
Lemony Snicket
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. They say that courage isn't a lack of fear. It is doing what has to be done, despite your fear.
Ruth Cardello
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
August Strindberg
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. Courage is not the lack of fear, it is acting in spite of it
R.Knight
#33. 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
#34. Cowgirl Courage isn't the lack of fear, but the courage to take action in the face of fear.
J.H. Lee
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#40. 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
#41. Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Plutarch
#42. There was nothing like necessity to supply a lack of nerve.
Helen Nielsen
#43. Lack of courage often hinders us from accomplishing the positive things that we would like to do.
Gary Chapman
#44. A lack of knowledge creates fear. Seeking knowledge creates courage.
Candice Swanepoel
#45. Group Thinking" or lack of courage to ask the tough and strategic questions is the chief weakness on Boards today.
Pearl Zhu
#46. 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
#47. There is nothing spiritual about a marriage that uses guilt, blame, shame or religious manipulations to keep a relationship together.
Shannon L. Alder
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. Could one make up for lack of moral courage by proving physical bravery?
Arthur C. Clarke
#51. Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
Confucius
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. Anything may be betrayed, anyone may be forgiven. But not those who lack the courage of their own greatness.
Ayn Rand
#58. Present-day civilization is suffering from a lack of moral courage. So many people are in the inglorious business of keeping
Dean Merrill
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.
Tom Stoppard
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