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

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.

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

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.

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

The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image. No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than 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.

Physical courage is a great test.

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