Moral Courage Quotes

70 Moral Courage quotes by 57 unique authors

Everybody Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and renders a man,… — Samuel Griswold Goodrich
When I today ask myself whence I got the moral courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move (or form a plan) running… — Aron Nimzowitsch
It is a great thing to see physical courage, and greater still to see moral courage, but the greatest to see of all is spiritual… — Oswald Chambers
There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage. — Mary Baker Eddy
Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a… — Theodore Sturgeon
Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage. — William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
Have the moral courage to stand firm in obeying God’s will, even if you have to stand alone. — Ulisses Soares
If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes. — Barbara Tuchman
As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary… — Napoleon Bonaparte
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test. — Oriana Fallaci
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
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. — Harper Lee
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. — Abraham Lincoln
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… — John Stuart Mill
Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other… — Dennis Prager
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral… — Ronald Reagan
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. — George Bernard Shaw
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. — Mark Twain
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. — Spencer Johnson
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their peers, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a… — Robert Kennedy
Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism,… — Mark Doty
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny… — John Stuart Mill
The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness and pain. .. YOU… — Thomas S. Monson
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men — George S. Patton

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