Top 1200 Moral Courage Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.

Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you.

Courage, Alexan­der,” she whis­pered. “Courage, Ta­tiana.

There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality.

It is courage the world needs, not infallibility...courage is always the surest wisdom.

Moral virtues and intellectual virtues are very different from each other, and moral virtue has to do with motivation, not cognition. Moral virtue requires a human level of intelligence, but it doesn't require that one be an intelligent human.

I'm amazed at the courage of the journalists on the frontlines in Iraq, but we need intellectual courage in our community.

Style is having the courage of one's choices and the courage to say no. It's good taste and culture.

We've become the party that wants to appease everyone and no one. And I think the only way that the Democrats become viable again is if we have people who have moral clarity and courage to say what they need to say and fight for what they need to fight for.

What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious courage which Robert Shaw showed when he marched with you, men of the Seventh Regiment. It is that more lonely courage which he showed when he dropped his warm commission in the glorious Second to head your dubious fortunes, negroes of the Fifty-fourth. That lonely kind of courage (civic courage as we call it in times of peace) is the kind of valor to which the monuments of nations should most of all be reared.

It is my conviction that physical courage at crucial moments comes from the sum of intellectual courage and integrity that you muster at that moment.

Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away? And if it is not moral for you to keep a value, why is it moral for others to accept it? If you are selfless and virtuous when you give it, are they not selfish and vicious when they take it?

Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

The more moral you pretend to be, the less moral you are; the less moral you try to be, the more moral you are.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Ending inflation means freeing all Americans from the terror of runaway living costs. ... We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we are in a time when there are no heroes just don't know where to look. ... 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.

Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.

I think we are trying to run the space age with horse and buggy moral and spiritual equipment. Technology you see has no morals; and with no moral restraints man will destroy himself ecologically, militarily, or in some other way. Only God can give a person moral restraints and spiritual strength.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.

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.

Getting to know the feel of both emotional energies, fear and courage, will enable you to choose courage more consciously. You don't want fear's energy running rampant in your beautiful self, even if you know its root. Whenever you're afraid, invoke courage to transform fear, the formula for freedom.

A person who sins neither in thought nor deed, and is fair and just, gains enormous courage and strength. As a leader, you need courage born of integrity in order to be capable of powerful leadership. To achieve this courage, you must search your heart, and make sure your conscience is clear and your behavior is beyond reproach.

The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me in three different classes - but above all, he taught me lessons in moral, physical, and intellectual courage that I have tried to apply in later life.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

COURAGE is not a quality you teach. Courage is the by-product of self-discipline. It is an ATTITUDE.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

A bullfighter must have courage, skill, and grace. And of these courage is the most important.

Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid. Courage means we refuse to be mastered by fear.

We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you.

The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals is a violation of moral duty

I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.

It takes a lot of courage to stay in power, but I am pledging to you to have the courage to continue moving forward.

Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. But the one who has love, courage and wisdom moves the world.

The men and women of the American military have the courage to follow orders. They deserve a commander-in-chief with the courage to give them.

Alex Dumas was a consummate warrior and a man of great conviction and moral courage. He was renowned for his strength, his swordsmanship, his bravery, and his knack for pulling victory out of the toughest situations. But he was known, too, for his profane back talk and his problems with authority.

'Moral police' is my new word. I am very against the media doing moral policing, giving opinions on actor's lives. Media should not become moral police; they should just report.

If you have a moral law then you must have a moral law giver. You don’t get a moral law unless there’s a moral law giver.

Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men havethe same moral nature, they have essentially the same rights. These rights may be wrested from the slave, but they cannot be alienated: his title to himself is as perfect now, as is that of Lyman Beecher: it is stamped on his moral being, and is, like it, imperishable.

Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

It's not just a matter of saying you have to have courage, because you learn courage.

Courage is not always about action. It takes courage to do nothing rather than do something that you do not believe in or understand.

The only courage you will need is the courage to live the life you are meant to.

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

All I needed was the courage to be me. That courage took a lifetime to develop.

I think courage is commensurate with your fear - if you lack imagination and you're fearless, that's not courage to me.

Courage doesn't come by doing what everybody else says. Courage does by what you know is right.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living.

Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician.

Courage is rarely reckless or foolish... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

To seek trouble - this is not courage, this is madness. Courage is the willingness of man to sensibly face the troubles he cannot avoid.