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Optimism is the true moral courage
Stand for right, even if you stand alone.
Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.
I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
Moral courage, to me, is much more demanding than physical courage.
The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
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.
I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
We may fight terrorism through brute force, but the terror that is unleashed in the name of religion can only be challenged through moral courage.
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.
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.
When the economic well-being of their nation demanded a strong and creative response, my colleagues at the Federal Reserve... mustered the moral courage to do what was necessary.
In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.
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.
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.
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.
Many say that a man comes along with the moral courage of Nelson Mandela once in a lifetime. He was an extraordinary man who paid a great sacrifice for his beliefs, then led a nation from the prospect of civil war to reconciliation.
We can't understand what we've accomplished on civil rights without telling the story of Bayard Rustin. And now, we must write the next chapter in the American civil rights story by drawing strength and inspiration from his moral courage.
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.