Best courage & moral Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”

“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 on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.”

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Book:Table-talk: To which are added Imaginary conversations of Pope and Swift

Source: Table-talk: To which are added Imaginary conversations of Pope and Swift

“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.”

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Author:Isaac Asimov

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

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Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“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.”

“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.”

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Book:On Liberty

Source: On Liberty

“Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.”

“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 courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.”

“If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.”

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Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

“An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.”

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Book:Back to Methuselah

Source: Back to Methuselah

“A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.”

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

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain

“Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change.”

“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 new society can be built.”

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Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“If we emphasize the life and works of our greatest contributors . . . people will come to realize that moral courage is bravery of the highest type, and America will be called the "Champion of Peace."”

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Author: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.”

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Author:Michael Josephson

“In a president, character is everything. A president doesn't have to be brilliant... He doesn't have to be clever; you can hire clever... You can hire pragmatic, and you can buy and bring in policy wonks. But you cant buy courage and decency, you cant rent a strong moral sense. A president must bring those things with him. He needs to have, in that much maligned word, but a good one nonetheless, a vision of the future he wishes to create.. But a vision is worth little if a president doesn't have the character - the courage and heart - to see it through.”

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Author:Peggy Noonan

“Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.”

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Author: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 brave in another.”

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Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and devotion can be gained, he may say to them, not by subtlety and intrigue; not by wire pulling and demagoguery; not by the arts of popularity; not by skill and shiftiness in following expediency; but by being firm in devotion to the principles of manhood and the application of morals and the courage of righteousness in the public life of our country; by being a man without guile and without fear, without selfishness, and with devotion to duty, devotion to his country.”

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

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Author:Confucius

“Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.”

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Book:Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness

Source: Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness

“That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed to the all too common philosophy that the government should protect and support one from the cradle to the grave. The policy of the Founding Fathers has made our people and our nation strong. The opposite leads inevitably to moral decay.”

“Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit; an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will.”

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Author:Charles Wilson, 1st Baron Moran

“It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.”

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Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.”

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Book:On Liberty

Source: On Liberty

“We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.”

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Author:Jackson Katz

“A moral coward is one who is afraid to do what he thinks is right because others will disapprove or laugh. Remember that all men have their fears, but those who face their fears with dignity have courage as well.”

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Book:Live the Good Life

Source: Live the Good Life

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

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Author:William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

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

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Author:Oriana Fallaci

“If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.”

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Book:Practicing History: Selected Essays

Source: Practicing History: Selected Essays

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