Andrew Bernstein Quotes

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

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

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

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

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

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

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

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.

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

Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they've got to make that choice.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience.

Courage is the most important of the virtues because it is the one that makes all the others possible.

I did not clash with the National Party. I clashed with my conscience. And in the end, conscience wins.

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.

It is curious–curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.