Moral Courage Quotes

70 Moral Courage quotes by 57 unique authors

Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is not proved by… — Unknown Author
What is Moral Courage? It is the ability to distinguish right from wrong and having so distinguished it, be prepared to say so,irrespective of the… — Sam Manekshaw
Moral courage, to me, is much more demanding than physical courage. — Unknown Author
And one more idea which may be laughed and sneered at in some supposedly sophisticated circles, but I just have to believe that the loving… — Ronald Reagan
Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and… — Ludwig von Mises
We need justice. We need toleration, honesty and moral courage. These are modern virtues without which we cannot hope to control the forces science has… — Unknown Author
An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of unestimable difficulties and… — John By
The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money. — Marlon Brando
Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and… — William Lloyd Garrison
Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity ... — Ralph Nader
In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life you… — Adam Driver
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as it… — John le Carre
Ending inflation means freeing all Americans from the terror of runaway living costs. ... We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say… — Ronald Reagan
A day will come when our children and grandchildren will look back and they'll ask one of two questions. Either they will ask: "what in… — Al Gore
No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral… — J. Lawton Collins
What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of… — Bob Dole
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare. — Claude Monet
Optimism is the true moral courage — Ernest Shackleton
It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice. — Soren Kierkegaard
The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind. — John Stuart Mill
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
The mere size of the brain has been proved to be no measure of superiority. The woman has greater moral courage than the man; she… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
Consequently, the truth of God lives in our souls more by the power of superior moral courage than by the light of an eminent intelligence.… — Thomas Merton
In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt),… — June Jordan
Here's an experiment: For one whole day think, speak, and act exactly as you would if you were absolutely convinced of the truth of the… — Emmet Fox

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