Physical Courage Quotes:

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Inspirational, Being Strong, Fitness, Martial Arts Inspirational, Speed Limits

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.92

topic: Inspirational, Courage, Men, Physical Courage, Moral Courage

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

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Courage, Integrity, Moral Obligation, Integrity And Character

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

- William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

topic: Courage, Moral, Virtue, Physical Courage, Moral Courage

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

- Oriana Fallaci

topic: Strength, Courage, Umpires, Physical Courage, Moral Courage

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

- Wendell Phillips

topic: Animal, Bravery, Accountability, Physical Courage, Physical Attraction

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

- Andre Gide

source: "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Courage To Change, Times Have Changed

Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.

- Howard Cosell

source: Howard Cosell (1974). “Like it is”

topic: Courage, Morning, Pain, Physical Courage

Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself.

- Rollo May

source: Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.176, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Fighting, Scene, Individual, Physical Courage

It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Courage, Indulge In, Wickedness, Physical Courage

My father cared very much about courage, physical courage as well. He despised those who didn't have it. But he never said to me, 'I want you to be courageous.' He just smiled with pride every time I did something difficult or won a race with the boys.

- Indira Gandhi

source: Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

topic: Father, Pride, Boys, Physical Courage

Physical courage is a great test.

- Oriana Fallaci

topic: Tests, Physical Courage

Physical courage to a person of honour is easier and less risky than acts that could subject him to embarrassment or humiliation or a diminished career or reputation. These things he must live with. To die for honor is an easier thought to bear.

- Michael Josephson

topic: Careers, Honor, Bears, Physical Courage

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

- Mark Twain

topic: Men, Moral, Traits, Physical Courage, Moral Courage

It is a great thing to see physical courage, and greater still to see moral courage, but the greatest to see of all is spiritual courage; oh, to see a person who will stand true to the integrity of Jesus Christ no matter what he or she goes through!

- Oswald Chambers

topic: Spiritual, Jesus, Integrity, Physical Courage, Moral Courage

It is time that the great center of our people, who reject the violence and unreasonableness of both the extreme right and the extreme left, searched their consciences, mustered their moral and physical courage, shed their intimidated silence, and declare their consciences.

- Margaret Chase Smith

source: Margaret Chase Smith (1972). “Declaration of Conscience”

topic: People, Silence, Violence, Physical Courage

Hollywood, as everyone knows, glamorizes physical courage. . . . if I had to define courage myself, I wouldn't say it's about shooting people. I'd say it's the quality that stimulates people, that enables them to move ahead and look beyond themselves.

- Clint Eastwood

topic: Physical Courage

If a western is a good western, it gives you a sense of that world and some of the qualities those men had - their comradeship, loyalty, and physical courage.

- James Stewart

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Physical Courage

I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.

- Woodrow Wilson

source: Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.98, tredition

topic: Believe, Soldier, Battle, Physical Courage

[Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual courage is even rarer than physical courage.

- John Charles Polanyi

topic: Courage, Disappointment, Believe, Physical Courage

I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.

- Catherine Deneuve

topic: Double Standard, Physical Courage

Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

topic: America, Soul, Body, Physical Courage

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

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Moral, Incredibles, Should, Physical Courage

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

- Claude Monet

topic: Tragedy, World, Moral, Physical Courage, Moral Courage

It is my conviction that physical courage at crucial moments comes from the sum of intellectual courage and integrity that you muster at that moment.

- Michael Weisskopf

source: Michael Weisskopf (2016). “Blood Brothers: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57”, p.188, Holt Paperbacks

topic: War, Integrity, Intellectual, Physical Courage, Crucial Moments

Truthfully, in this age those with intellect have no courage and those with some modicum of physical courage have no intellect. If things are to alter during the next fifty years then we must re-embrace Byron’s ideal: the cultured thug.

- Jonathan Bowden

topic: Courage, Thug, Years, Byron, Physical Courage

These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.

- Major Taylor

source: Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

topic: Courage, Simple, May, Morale, Physical Courage

Moral courage, to me, is much more demanding than physical courage.

- Leon L. Van Autreve

topic: Army, Moral, Moral Courage, Physical Courage

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

- Walter Lord

topic: Running, Intellectual, Premium, Physical Courage, Personal Courage

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

- Stephen Leacock

source: 1910 Literary Lapses,'Reflections on Riding'.

topic: Horse, Economy, Flasks, Good Horse, Physical Courage

Recognising that an ostentatious cult of heroism and state service served an important propaganda function for the British elite does not mean, of course, that we should dismiss it as artificial or insincere. All aristocracies have a strong military tradition, and for many British patricians the protracted warfare of the period was a godsend. It gave them a job, and, more important, a purpose, an opportunity to carry out what they had been trained to do since childhood: ride horses, fire guns, exercise their undoubted physical courage and tell other people what to do.

- Linda Colley

topic: Horse, Strong, Jobs, Ostentatious, Physical Courage

Successful or not, acts of physical courage always bring honor. It is the smaller forms of valor - standing up for principle at the risk of social disapproval, economic loss or injury to career - that require the greatest moral will power. Since there is usually little upside to winning and a significant and often lasting downside to losing, moral courage often requires as much character as physical bravery.

- Michael Josephson

topic: Character, Successful, Loss, Physical Courage, Moral Courage

The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training - sacrifice.

- Douglas MacArthur

source: Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

topic: Religious, Sacrifice, Men, Physical Courage, Duty And Honor