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Physical courage is a great test.
I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.
I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.
Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical 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.
These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
For the men and women of the FBI, bravery is reflected not only in the physical courage often necessary in the job. It can be seen in the courage of conviction, in the courage to act with wisdom in the face of fear, and in the courage it takes to admit mistakes and move forward.