Quotes About Valor

Unsung, the noblest deed will die.

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Come and take them

Whilst he was very young, he was a soldier in the expedition against Potidaea, where Socrates lodged in the same tent with him, and stood next him in battle. Once there happened a sharp skirmish, in which they both behaved with signal bravery; but Alcibiades receiving a wound, Socrates threw himself before him to defend him, and beyond any question saved him and his arms from the enemy, and so in all justice might have challenged the prize of valor. But

It is the hither accomplishment to use money well than to use arms; but not to need it is more noble than to use it.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

Mereka membela apa yang menjadi haknya tanpa mengindahkan maut.

quod si deficiant vires, audacia certe laus erit [even if strength fails boldness will merit praise]

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

You've got to be brave.

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.

I listen to these pundits all the time breaking down Trump - 'He's brash, and he's bold, and he's successful' - and none of those are what it is. There's one word to sum it up, and it's courage. He has courage.

They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth; and his alert acceptance of it, from whatever quarter; the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world may at any time be superseded and decease.

Peace has its victories but it takes brave men to win them

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right/

Live rightly, die nobly.

At such times his thoughts would be full of valorous deeds: he loved these dreams and the success of his imaginary achievements.

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat

In a way the C.I.D. man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives. There was no end in sight.

A hero can be fool, he's still a hero.