Quotes about Truth and Courage

Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor. Votes: 3

The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it. Votes: 3

Sometimes is not in the battle field where truth and courage only shows. You can win in any place with the help of your courage. Votes: 3

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go. Votes: 3

Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences. Votes: 3

While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward. Votes: 3

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead. Votes: 3

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect. Votes: 3

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment. Votes: 3

Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group. Votes: 3

My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries. Votes: 3

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. Votes: 3

For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself. Votes: 3

The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied. Votes: 3

When who you are naturally is not only considered a sin, but you're reviled for being that human being and you don't have any control over it, there are lots of issues that come into play. And it takes a lot of presence, determination, courage and space to figure out how to land in that truth regardless of what anyone around you thinks about it. Votes: 3

The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can. Votes: 3

What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane. Votes: 2

Parents must have the courage to say no, to defend truth, and to bear powerful testimony. Votes: 1

truth is a letter from courage! Votes: 0

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.... Votes: 0

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage Votes: 0

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. Votes: 0

Have the courage to face the truth Votes: 0

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Votes: 0

It takes strength and courage to admit the truth. Votes: 0

Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards! Votes: 0

There's courage involved if you want to become Truth. Votes: 0

Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice. Votes: 0

Telling the truth after proper investigation is the height of courage. Votes: 0

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study. Votes: 0

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth. Votes: 0

Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed. Votes: 0

Somebody ought to have the courage to tell the truth. These people are terrorists. Votes: 0

Unless you have the courage to doubt you will never come to know the truth. Votes: 0

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue. Votes: 0

I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth. Votes: 0

We cannot be tepid disciples. The Church needs our courage in order to give witness to truth. Votes: 0

Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say. Votes: 0

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America. Votes: 0

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness. Votes: 0

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness. Votes: 0

Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage. Votes: 0

There are many paths to the truth. We need only the courage to tread our own path, no one else's. Votes: 0

Bravery shows up in everyday life when people have the courage to live their truth, their vision and their dreams. Votes: 0

The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered. Votes: 0

It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth. Votes: 0

And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express Votes: 0

The universe conspires to reveal the truth and to make your path easy if you have the courage to follow the signs. Votes: 0

We need the courage to face the truth about what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it. Votes: 0

When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life. Votes: 0

There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood. Votes: 0

Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth. Votes: 0

Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth. Votes: 0

Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe! Votes: 0

I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth. Votes: 0

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love. Votes: 0

To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth. Votes: 0

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all. Votes: 0

No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth. Votes: 0

Courage is the only asset That will conquer in the fight If you have the will to mass it On the lines of truth and right. Votes: 0

The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage. Votes: 0

There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Votes: 0

People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. Live your truth and don't EVER stop! Votes: 0

It requires courage to utter truth; for the higher Truth lifts her voice, the louder will error scream, until its inarticulate sound is forever silenced in oblivion Votes: 0

My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth. Votes: 0

Find the courage to ask yourself the questions your afraid to hear the answer to? Why... Because it's the only way you'll know which direction your truth lays. Votes: 0

The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are—without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are. Votes: 0

For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death. Votes: 0