Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

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

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

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 must remind you, Senators, that extreme patriotism in the defense of freedom is no crime and let me respectfully remind you that pusillanimity in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

I'm simply saying that heroes are people whose activities, whose attitudes, and whose judgment you just think, 'Wow. That's good. That's right. That's real.'

If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

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

Do not feel lonely on the road of righteousness Because of the fewness of the walkers on it.

Fear could never make virtue.

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

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

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.

What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

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

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.

Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of wrongdoing.