Moral Strength Quotes

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

Even in war moral power is to physical as three parts out of four.

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

We don't want yellow cowards in this Army. They should be killed off like rats. If not, they will go home after this war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed more brave men. Kill off the Goddamned cowards and we will have a nation of brave men.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.

The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.

Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means—the only complete realist.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctioned by its justice and sustained by a virtuous people.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.

Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

My father never was and isn't a mean man. You know, he never was ruthless. And he succeeded in life without sticking it to anybody. And that's a great example for a man, a strong man, a man's man, to give to his children. You can succeed, you can be successful, without walking over somebody.

One man with truth on his side is stronger than a majority in error, and will conquer in the end.

Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.