Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors he is a moral coward.
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer 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.
If we are to survive we must have ideas vision and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.
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.
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts and to stand by their convictions even to the very death.
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.
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.