Moral Courage Quotes
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If not us, then who?If not now, then when? — John E. Lewis
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. — Abraham Lincoln
Everything started as nothing.
— Auliq Ice
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?
— Mark Twain
Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
— Wendell Phillips
Moral courage, to me, is much more demanding than physical courage.
— Leon L. Van Autreve
A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
— George Bernard Shaw
Statements are made so plainly and positively that men have hardly the moral courage to pause upon them and find that they are without support.
— G.K. Chesterton
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity ...
— Ralph Nader
It doesn't take courage to kill someone,' Klaus said. 'It takes a severe lack of moral stamina.
— Lemony Snicket
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.
— Margaret Heffernan
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
— Confucius
The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
— Marlon Brando
It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage ... is so rare and despised.
— Albert Schweitzer
None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.
— Thomas Watson Jr.
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
— Harper Lee
Never do a wrong thing to make a friendor to keep one. — Robert E.Lee
Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.
— John F. Kennedy
Could one make up for lack of moral courage by proving physical bravery?
— Arthur C. Clarke
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.
— G.K. Chesterton
When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.
— Leigh Hunt
Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
— Oriana Fallaci
Discouragement is a moral state, a failure of heart; you treat it by taking courage, not Prozac.
— David Gelernter
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
— Spencer Johnson
Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
We need moral leadership and courage in our world.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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 hellhole.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
— Abraham Lincoln
What do you believe reveals more about a man's character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it?
— Aaron B. Powell
It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Stand for right, even if you stand alone.
— Thomas S. Monson
If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.
— Barbara Tuchman
If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
— Abraham Lincoln
Optimism is the true moral courage
— Ernest Shackleton
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
— Frederick Douglass
Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
Optimism is true moral courage.
— Ernest Shackleton
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 is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men
— George S. Patton Jr.
In war, the moral is to the physical as ten to one.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
— Harrison Ford
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
Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.
— Dan B. Allender
A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.
— Jane Addams
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
— Andre Gide
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
— Mark Twain
Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.
— Chester Nimitz
Present-day civilization is suffering from a lack of moral courage. So many people are in the inglorious business of keeping
— Dean Merrill
The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
— John Stuart Mill
The Christian is to take his place in society with moral courage to stand up for that which is right, just, and honorable.
— Billy Graham
If not now, then when?
— John E. Lewis
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.
— Charles Wilson, 1st Baron Moran
Have the moral courage to stand firm in obeying God's will, even if you have to stand alone.
— Ulisses Soares
You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
— Abraham Lincoln