Quotes About Valor

Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave -

I gave my life for freedom-This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so.

In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.

Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.

The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.

If life is a battle, then my inner scars are medals for valor, for swiftness, for courage, for passion. Evil is the dark-haired brother of Good; they walk hand in hand—always.

A warrior does not beg for his life. ~Izuru Kira

Let valour end my life!

The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice.

Fie on it! Cowardice is worse than death!

It often occurs to me that if, against all odds, there is a judgmental God and heaven, it will come to pass that when the pearly gates open, those who had the valor to think for themselves will be escorted to the head of the line, garlanded, and given their own personal audience.

Glory always has a price, and that cost is almost always paid in copiously spilled blood.

Courage is COMPETENCE!

KNOWLT HOHEIMER I was the first fruits of the battle of Missionary Ridge. When I felt the bullet water my heart I wished I had staid at home and gone to jail For stealing the hogs of Curl Trenary, Instead of running away and joining the army. Rather a thousand times the country jail That to lie under his marble figure with wings, And this granite pedestal Bearing the words, «Pro Patria». What do they mean, anyway?

They died in splendour, these who claimed no spark Of glory save the light in a friend's eye.

I learn how great hearts feel what sweetness and glory there is to die for the things they love! I saw a father sacrificing himself for his son; he was subjected to charges which a word of his could dispel, — he was mistaken for his boy. With what joy he seized the error, confessed the noble crimes of valour and fidelity which the son had indeed committed, and went to the doom, exulting that his death saved the life he had given, not in vain!

Who steals my purse steals trash," he said, "but who steals my sword steals honor itself, and him will I harry by wood and by water till I cleave him from his brainpan to his thighbone!

Firefighters are hot stuff!

I want you to lay down your life, Perkins. We need a futile gesture at this stage. It will raise the whole tone of the war.

Quit yourselves like men, and fight.

Mighty men of valor.

Women and children first.

A brave arm makes a short sword long.

Be strong, and quit yourselves like men.