COWARDICE

怯懦

There are times when silence is golden, but there are also time when it is just plain yellow.

Dorothy Grover Bolton

有時沈默的確是金,有時卻只是怯懦而噤若寒蟬。

A coward is one who in perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

Ambrose Bierce

懦夫是一個遇到危難時用腳思想的人。

A dog barks when his master is attacked.  I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent, without giving any sound.

John Calvin

一條狗在主人受攻擊時會大聲吠叫。而我如果看到上帝真理被攻擊,卻仍噤若寒蟬不出一聲,那就是懦夫。

Some people deliberately avoid anything that may lead them to the divine encounter.

J. B. Phillips

許多人謹慎的避開那些會導致他們面對屬靈衝突的事情。

I can't abide cowardice.  I refuse to make my God and Saviour a nonentity.

C. T. Studd

我無法忍受怯懦。因為我拒絕讓我的上帝和救主變成可有可無。

He is a base servant that is ashamed of his lord's livery.

George Swinnock

一位以穿著僕人制服為恥的人是一位卑鄙的僕人。

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare

懦夫在未死以前,就已經死了好多次;勇士一生只死一次。

Cowards are cruel.

William Shakespeare

懦夫不仁

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Mahatma Gandhi

懦夫無法展現愛;這是勇敢者的特權。

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

George Bernard Shaw

仇恨是懦夫因被恐嚇而採取的報復。

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

Mark Twain

對抗誘惑有幾種好的保護方法,但最可靠的是怯懦。

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

懦夫轉身離開,但勇敢者的選擇是危險。

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

只有懦夫才敢吹噓自己從未知道恐懼。

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Albert Camus

缺乏勇氣的人總會找到一種哲學來為自己辯解。

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

膽小的人在危險前害怕,懦夫在危險中害怕,勇敢的人在危險後害怕。

Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?

William Punshon

膽怯的人問:安全嗎?圓滑的人問:划算嗎?有良心的人問:對嗎?

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

Charles Dickens

總之,我太懦弱了,不敢去做我明知是對的事,正如我太懦弱,竟不敢不去做我明知是錯的事。

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

對不寬容的寬容,就是怯懦。

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Mickey Mantle

團隊是男孩可以獨自證明自己勇氣的地方。幫派是懦夫藏身的地方。

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

上帝不會讓懦夫彰顯祂的工作。

A coward flees backward, away from new things. A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.

Jacques Maritain

懦夫向後逃,逃離新事物。勇者向前逃,逃進新事物之中。

Do not lament the bitterness of life! — Lamentation is the mark of the weak.

Maxim Gorky

不要哀嘆生活的苦澀!——哀嘆是弱者的標記。

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

Seneca

並非因為事情艱難,我們才不敢;正是因為我們不敢,事情才顯得艱難。

Cowards shrink from challenges, weaklings flee from them, but warriors wink at them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

懦夫退縮於挑戰,弱者逃離挑戰,但戰士對挑戰眨眨眼。

The brave with all of their weaknesses are better than the cowardly with all of their strengths.

Matshona Dhliwayo

勇敢的人即使有所有弱點,也比懦夫即使有所有優點更好。

Warriors suffer for their dreams. Cowards pay for their fears.

Matshona Dhliwayo

戰士為夢想受苦。懦夫為恐懼付出代價。

A brave man is the coward that dares to be brave.

Tamerlan Kuzgov

勇敢的人是敢於勇敢的懦夫。

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

George Jackson

耐心有其極限。太過分了,就是怯懦。