Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.

I've lost a lot. I've lost money, and my reputation has taken a hit for taking the high road to protect my dignity, to protect children, and for other good causes. But I don't think there's ever too steep a price for doing the right thing.

I'm telling you, you did what you believed you had to do through all of this. Not what was easiest or best for you. You did what you did, and you're owning it. And I don't know ten men who would be brave enough to do that.

It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

Heroism is a matter of integrity--beco ming more and more at each step ourselves.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

My philosophy is if you're a man at night, you gotta be a man in the morning.

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

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.

Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the everyman hero. If you are an aspiring artist and you wish to avoid “judgments,” you'll find that you have nothing to say.

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.

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

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.

Integrity means having the courage to do what is right, and what is aligned with your values, no matter the situation.