Joseph Addison Quotes

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience.

The just man and firm of purpose—not the heat of fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, not presence of threatening tyrant can shake—in his rocklike soul.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

Nothing deters a good man from what honor requires of him

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

That said, your values will not always be the object of public admiration. In fact, the more you live by your beliefs, the more you will endure the censure of the world.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.

Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life.

One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.

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

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in this faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.