Quotes with courage-moral

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  • Hermann Hesse I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Burgess Owens I believe that my worth is not measured by what I do, by the honors that are bestowed upon me, or by material wealth that I might obtain. Instead, I am measured by the courage I show while standing for my beliefs, by the dedication I exhibit to ensure my word is good, and the resolve I undertake to establish my actions and deeds as honorable.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Nathanael Emmons I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
    Nathanael Emmons
    American Congregational minister and theologian (1745 - 1840)
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  • Rita Mae Brown I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Prince Philip I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
    Prince Philip
    British prince, husband of Queen Elizabeth II (1921 - 2021)
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  • Nelson Mandela I have learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. A brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
    Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Hubert Humphrey I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • James Thomson I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
    James Thomson
    Scottish poet (1700 - 1748)
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  • Samuel Johnson I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Oscar Wilde I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Seneca I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bertrand Russell I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • George F. Will I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Harper Lee I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
    Harper Lee
    American writer (1926 - 2016)
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  • William T. Sherman I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
    William T. Sherman
    American businessman
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  • Bill Rancic I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Barry Eisler I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Antonia Fraser I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Elizabeth Taylor I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.
    Elizabeth Taylor
    British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian (1932 - 2011)
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