Moral Courage Quotes

70 Moral Courage quotes by 57 unique authors

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… — Rollo May
The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a… — Joyce Carol Oates
I feel sorry for the man who has never known the bracing thrill of taking a stand and sticking to it fearlessly. Moral courage has… — Billy Graham
If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that you really are.… — Louisa May Alcott
Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a… — Rollo May
Optimism is true moral courage. — Ernest Shackleton
Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one… — Clarence Darrow
If we emphasize the life and works of our greatest contributors . . . people will come to realize that moral courage is bravery of… — Spark Matsunaga
It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage. — Michael Josephson
Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence. — John F. Kennedy
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… — Charles Caleb Colton
What a person says and does in ordinary moments when when no one is looking reveals more about true character than grand actions taken while… — Michael Josephson
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. — Thomas Hardy
In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their… — John Burns
Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. — Robert Francis Kennedy
Moral courage and character go hand in hand .... a man of real character is consistently courageous, being imbued with a basic integrity and a… — Unknown Author
It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare — Mark Twain
A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage. — George Bernard Shaw
Last, but by no means least, courage - moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in… — Douglas MacArthur
Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their peers, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer… — Robert Kennedy

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