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  • Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.

  • Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

    Courage   Fear   Cancer  
  • Christianity without the cross is nothing. The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn and defeat. But in no true sense have these things ceased or changed. Jesus is still He whom man despiseth, and the rejected of men. The world has never admired Jesus, for moral courage is yet needed in every one of its high places by him who would "confess" Christ. The "offense" of the cross, therefore, has led men in all ages to endeavor to be rid of it, and to deny that it is the power of God in the world.

    Jesus   Men   Rejection  
  • 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.

    Courage   Peace   Bravery  
    "Nichomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, Book II, c. 325 BC.
  • Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

    "Teen Ink: What Matters". Book by Stephanie H. Meyer, John Meyer and Peggy Veljkovic (p. 309), April 15, 2003.
  • Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.

    Country   Mind   Moral  
    NEA Journal: The Journal of the National Education Association‎, Volume 41 (p. 300), 1952.
  • Courage is not the absence of fear...

    Courage   Fear   Cancer  
    "Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership" by Richard Stengel, content.time.com. July 9, 2008.
  • The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

    Life   Courage   Struggle  
  • Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.

    "Examples of Righteousness". Thomas S. Monson’s address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2008.
  • Stand for right, even if you stand alone.

    "Examples of Righteousness". Thomas S. Monson’s address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2008.
  • 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.

    Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.

    Ralph Nader (2011). “"Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!"”, p.223, Seven Stories Press
  • 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.

    NEA Journal: The Journal of the National Education Association‎, Volume 41 (p. 300), 1952.
  • The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

    Money   Hollywood   Moral  
  • It is almost inevitable that our faith will be challenged. We may at times find ourselves surrounded by others and yet standing in the minority or even standing alone concerning what is acceptable and what is not. Do we have the moral courage to stand firm for our beliefs, even if by so doing we must stand alone?

    May   Minorities   Belief  
  • 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.

  • Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

  • In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.

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

    Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.372, Univ of California Press
  • 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.

    Courage   War   Patriotic  
    First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981
  • Years ago I was asked this question: Do terrorists fear anything? I said, 'I suspect they would fear a morally strong America.' They would know that a morally strong America would not be dislodged. You can always appeal to a point of vulnerability which would break a people up. [Terrorists] don't fear so much the weaponry as the moral courage, and I think a morally strong America would be intimidating to them.

    Source: www.virtueonline.org
  • The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, "One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door." The future is knocking at our door right now. Make no mistake, the next generation will ask us one of two questions. Either they will ask: "What were you thinking; why didn't you act?" Or they will ask instead: "How did you find the moral courage to rise and successfully resolve a crisis that so many said was impossible to solve?

    Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, delivered 10 December 2007, Oslo, Norway
  • We must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in 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. It is a weapon that we as Americans do have. Let that be understood by those who practice terrorism and prey upon their neighbors. As for the enemies of freedom, those who are potential adversaries, they will be reminded that peace is the highest aspiration of the American people. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it; We will not surrender for it, now or ever. We are Americans.

    First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981
  • A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

    Notes to Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) "Julius Caesar"
  • 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.

    Courage   Moral   Absence  
  • Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

    "A Time for Moral Courage". Reader's Digest, July 1964.
  • What a person says and does in ordinary moments when when no one is looking reveals more about true character than grand actions taken while in the spotlight. Our true character is revealed by normal, consistent, everyday attitudes and behavior, not by self-conscious words or deeds or rare acts of moral courage.

  • The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

    Courage   Men   Order  
  • The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as it always will, not in conformity or even patriotism, but in acts of solitary moral courage. Which, come to think of it, is what we used to admire in our Christian savior

    Christian   Real   Lying  
  • That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

    Success   Time   Work  
    John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.202, Hackett Publishing
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