A Quote by Thomas Hardy

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Thomas Hardy

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Courage Patience Blending Moral Moral Courage Physical Timidity

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Thomas Hardy
English - Novelist
June 2, 1840 - January 11, 1928

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

Oriana Fallaci

Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Successful or not, acts of physical courage always bring honor. It is the smaller forms of valor - standing up for principle at the risk of social disapproval, economic loss or injury to career - that require the greatest moral will power. Since there is usually little upside to winning and a significant and often lasting downside to losing, moral courage often requires as much character as physical bravery.

Michael Josephson

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

Mark Twain

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

Claude Monet

Moral courage, to me, is much more demanding than physical courage.

Leon L. Van Autreve

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

William Slim

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

Tim O'Brien

It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.

Albert Schweitzer

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 courage; oh, to see a person who will stand true to the integrity of Jesus Christ no matter what he or she goes through!

Oswald Chambers

Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

Mark Twain

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 rewards that timidity can never imagine. Like a shot of adrenaline, it floods the spirit with vitality.

Billy Graham

I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.

Woodrow Wilson

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

Hermann Hesse

Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work - this is the only way. Go on; remember - patience and purity and courage and steady work. . . . So long as you are pure, and true to your principles, you will never fail.

Swami Vivekananda

For the men and women of the FBI, bravery is reflected not only in the physical courage often necessary in the job. It can be seen in the courage of conviction, in the courage to act with wisdom in the face of fear, and in the courage it takes to admit mistakes and move forward.

Robert Mueller

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