Quotes About Valor

It was my view that no kill was worth the life of a wingman. . . . Pilots in my unit who lost wingmen on this basis were prohibited from leading a [section]. The were made to fly as wingman, instead.

You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.

There is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved.

Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight, and die in the midst of it.

They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.

The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.

We have yielded no more than a few hundred yards of it as a prize to the enemy. But on every yard there lies a dead man.

Still the little piece of convulsed earth in which we lie is held. We have yielded no more than a few hundred yards of it as a prize to the enemy. But on every yard there lies a dead man.

Julge saab olla ainult siis, kui ka hirmu tuntakse

Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few.

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

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.

If he had known how many men in history have had to use a hill to die on it would not have cheered him any for, in the moment he was passing through, men are not impressed by what has happened to the other men in similar circumstances any more than a widow of one day is helped by the knowledge that other loved husbands have died.

I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?

O Lord, to comport myself as a man tomorrow in the day of battle.

A coward dies a thousand times, but a brave man only once

Those who have entered it honorably, and no men ever entered earth more honorably than those who died in Spain, already have achieved immortality.

There is only a good fight and a good death for the one whose life is given to the noble.

Hundreds would die, but not the thing they died for.

If you're not at least willing to die for something- something that really matters- in the end, you die for nothing.

They are weary of war, but war is what we live for. They are afraid of death, but death is what we love.