Top 1200 Moral Courage Quotes & Sayings

May we muster courage at the crossroads, courage for the conflicts, courage to say, "no," courage to say, "yes," for courage counts.

Countrymen, the task ahead is great indeed, and heavy is the responsibility; and yet it is a noble and glorious challenge - a challenge which calls for the courage to dream, the courage to believe, the courage to dare, the courage to do, the courage to envision, the courage to fight, the courage to work, the courage to achieve - to achieve the highest excellencies and the fullest greatness of man. Dare we ask for more in life?

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

Optimism is the true moral courage

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.

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

Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.

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

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

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

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage.

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

The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.

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

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

It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.

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 man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward the world, the faith in one's purpose, and the sufficiency of one's own approval as a justification for one's own acts.

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

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

Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.

Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.

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

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

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

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 counter to all tradition, I think I may say in answer, that it was only my intense preoccupation with the problem of the blockade which helped me to do so.

A spontaneous act of generosity, performed with unselfish grace is an example of moral beauty, as are certain acts of courage; genuine modesty is a possible example, as is selfless love. Although moral beauty is a natural gift, it is nevertheless more likely to emerge and flourish in societies that appreciate and encourage it.

Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate.

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.

A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.

There's some wisdom and no moral deficiency to one who holds courage in reserve and uses it as a last resort. Before we take the kind of risks that require courage, we ought to exhaust other less risky alternatives.

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.

Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.

Being a successful trader also takes courage: the courage to try, the courage to fail, the courage to succeed, and the courage to keep on going when the going gets tough.

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.

None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

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.

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

The love of wisdom is a way of life; that is to say, it's a set of practices that have to do with mustering the courage to think critically about ourselves, society, and the world; mustering the courage to empathize; the courage, I would say, to love; the courage to have compassion with others, especially the widow and the orphan, the fatherless and the motherless, poor and working peoples, gays and lesbians, and so forth - and the courage to hope.

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage . . . . Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elite, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society.

But courage in fighting is by no means the only form, nor perhaps even the most important. There is courage in facing poverty, courage in facing derision, courage in facing the hostility of one's own herd. In these, the bravest soldiers are often lamentably deficient. And above all there is the courage to think calmly and rationally in the face of danger, and to control the impulse of panic fear or panic rage.

Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God’s approval. Courage becomes a living and an attractive virtue when it is regarded not only as a willingness to die manfully, but also as a determination to live decently. 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.

Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage - courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow. You have to have moral courage to stick up to that - no matter what comes in your way, no matter what the obstacle and the opposition is.

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

Optimism is true moral courage.

The best have the courage and I say this all the time. The courage to take the ball all the time, the courage to make sure that they are not going to be intimidated by their opponents, and the courage to express themselves at all times and I think that all the great players have got that.

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

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!

To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning.

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.

Fear binds people together. And fear disperses them. Courage inspires communities: the courage of an example - for courage is as contagious as fear. But courage, certain kinds of courage, can also isolate the brave.

Courage can't make you an artist, but without that courage, you won't remain one for long. First is the courage to be alone in the room where you create, and the courage to face that indefinitely, with no one to say if you are any good or not. Then, there is the courage to follow your work wherever it's going to take you. And the courage to fight for your work.

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.

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

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

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.

You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.

It doesn't take courage to kill someone,' Klaus said. 'It takes a severe lack of moral stamina.