Mark Twain Quotes

It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.

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

Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.

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

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

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

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

Courage is the rarest of all good traits

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

Cowardice is the greatest sin.

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

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

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience.

There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage.

Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.

Without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

Cowards can never be moral.

[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.

A moral coward is one who is afraid to do what he thinks is right because others will disapprove or laugh. Remember that all men have their fears, but those who face their fears with dignity have courage as well.

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

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

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