Quotes of: Moral-courage Keyword

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

William Slim

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

Oriana Fallaci

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Thomas Hardy

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

Marlon Brando

The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

Margaret Heffernan

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

G.K. Chesterton

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

John Stuart Mill

Courage moral and physical: 'anima'—the ability to think like a woman. Also a sense of the absurd. Courage moral and physical: “anima”—the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.

Hitch-22: A Memoir

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)

The Courage to Create

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.

Confucius

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgr...

Haile Selassie

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Leon Blum

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Wendell Phillips

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

Jalal Talabani

There is a heady sense of manhood that comes from advancing from apathy to commitment, from timidity to courage, from passivity to aggressiveness. There is an intoxication that comes from standing up to the police at last.

From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative...

The Courage to Create

All of us, I suppose, like to believe that in a moral emergency we will behave like the heroes of our youth, bravely and forthrightly, without thought of personal loss or discredit. Certainly that was my conviction back in the summer of 1968. Tim O'B...

The Things They Carried