#moral courage

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. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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

— William Slim

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

— Mark Twain

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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. ↗

— John Burns

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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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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

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The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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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. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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