25 Quotes Tagged: moral-courage

In war, the moral is to the physical as ten to one.

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.

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

There are not enough morally brave men in stock. We are out of moral-courage material. . . .

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

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

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

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.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.