William Gurnall Quotes

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

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

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience.

I have the courage of youth, and I'm not afraid of anything. My only enemies are illegality and corruption.

Feare nothing but sinne.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

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

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.

To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

There are times when it is more courageous to be cowardly.

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

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.

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.

Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.