It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
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.
Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.