Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test. — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage,… — Walter Lord Copy Share Image
It is my conviction that physical courage at crucial moments comes from the sum of intellectual courage and integrity that you muster… — Michael Weisskopf Copy Share Image
My father cared very much about courage, physical courage as well. He despised those who didn't have it. But he never said… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“You cannot be a military leader without physical courage. But there are Plenty of soldiers with physical courage who are not leaders” — John Adair Copy Share Image
[Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Physical courage to a person of honour is easier and less risky than acts that could subject him to embarrassment or humiliation… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
“He must have courage, not the physical courage required on a battlefield but the moral courage to make and carry out decisions… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share Image
For the men and women of the FBI, bravery is reflected not only in the physical courage often necessary in the job.… — Robert Mueller Copy Share Image
“And we the people are so vulnerable. Our bodies are shot with mortality. Our legs are fear and our arms are time.… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If a western is a good western, it gives you a sense of that world and some of the qualities those men… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Hollywood, as everyone knows, glamorizes physical courage. . . . if I had to define courage myself, I wouldn't say it's about… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried… — Major Taylor Copy Share Image
It is a great thing to see physical courage, and greater still to see moral courage, but the greatest to see of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Truthfully, in this age those with intellect have no courage and those with some modicum of physical courage have no intellect. If… — Jonathan Bowden Copy Share Image
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Moral courage, to me, is much more demanding than physical courage. — Leon L. Van Autreve Copy Share Image
It is time that the great center of our people, who reject the violence and unreasonableness of both the extreme right and… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Successful or not, acts of physical courage always bring honor. It is the smaller forms of valor - standing up for principle… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Recognising that an ostentatious cult of heroism and state service served an important propaganda function for the British elite does not mean,… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
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