Julius Charles Hare Quotes

What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in a certain manner; and it is not always out of courage or purity that men are brave, and women chaste.

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.

I shall never again admire a merely brave man.

"What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching."

It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave.

It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

Be just, and fear not.

That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.

Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.

I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness.

My parents worked really hard at communicating other values they felt were important, such as integrity, courage, humility, treating others with dignity and respect, and having a thirst for knowledge.

I've been trying to find the word that says what I need to be in life. 'Brave' is the only word. It's the only thing that I ask myself to be.

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.

Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.

We Call Them the Brave who likely were reluctant to be brave.

Without justice, courage is weak.

Cowardice is the greatest sin.