Philip Sidney Quotes

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

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.

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.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

Political courage is not political suicide.

Political courage requires clarity.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

It is people's willingness to take personal risks and confront the powerful by daring to speak the truth, not the truth itself, that ultimately leads to change.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

A man must be willing to die for justice

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice.

Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.

A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must lead to the destruction of our intellectual life unless the danger summons up strong personalities able to fill the lukewarm and discouraged with new strength and resolution.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

Being brave doesn't mean never being afraid, you know. It means going for it anyway because you know it's the right thing to do.

It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.