Quotes About Valor

La memoria a veces resulta confusa, esa es la cuestión. Si la memoria no fuera confusa no poseerías el valor del necio de repetir una y otra vez cosas que te destrozan.

There are as many heroes in private life as in the great affairs of state.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.

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.

Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

Cada virtud o conquista personal que desestimes es negar y faltar al respeto a tu existencia.

Where, where was Roderick then!One blast upon his bugle hornWere worth a thousand men!

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

They lost their pride And died as men before their bodies died.

These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.

You shall not hear their mirth: You shall not come to think them well content By any jest of mine. These men are worth Your tears:You are not worth their merriment.

Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day Sleeping the years of their manhood away. Give them the meed they have won in the past; Give them the honors their future forcast; Give them the chaplets they won in the strife; Give them the laurels they lost with their life.

No seas modesto en estos tiempos la valentía es un bien bastante escaso.

The highest demonstration of courage, Grand Master had once remarked, must be to die of fright.

When I asked him, fifty-three years after the event, "Mr. Lucas, why did you jump on those grenades?" he did not hesitate with his answer: "To save my buddies.

Chivalry is not dead it is just hiding underground

I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

Like most veterans, they would continue their lives saying that the truest heroes were the men who did not come back.

Would appreciate your convoying (sic) the following to Joe DiMaggio in the event the Yankees don't pay more than $37,000: 'We cordially invite you to try out with the 143rd Infantry, 36th Division. The pay is only $21 a month but that's better than nothing. Please advise. P.S. Why settle for yesterday's salary?

for it is better that we slay a coward than through a coward be all slain.

Pickett's charge represented the Confederate war effort in microcosm: matchless valor, apparent initial success, and ultimate disaster.

Men would fight well for their pay, but they would die for an aspiration.