Quotes About Valor

In Holland, Ron was the battalion S-2 Intelligence officer for Colonel Robert Strayer. While on reconnaissance, Ron paddled across the Neder Rhine alone at night. The enemy opened fire on him and he dove into the water with a German bullet in his butt. He finished recrossing the river by swimming and was found bleeding and exhausted on the south shore. In spite of his wound, he brought back critical information and later received the Silver Star for that adventure.

Calamus fortior gladio.

Turpis autem fuga mortis omni est morte pejor.

discretion is the better part of valour

To die for ones country, is to live forever.

He said nothing in the world was worth what this war was going to do to us. He said there wasn't anything at all to glory—it was just misery and dirt.

I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam.

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

Quién sabe si algún día no será nuestra religión la que pueda enseñar al mundo y a todos los pueblos lo bueno y por eso, sólo por eso nosotros tenemos que sufrir. Nunca podemos ser sólo holandeses o sólo ingleses o pertenecer a cualquier otra nación: aparte de nuestra nacionalidad, siempre seguiremos siendo judíos, estaremos obligados a serlo, pero también queremos seguir siéndolo. ¡Valor!

Somewhere a man answers courage with courage

God only knows how many people, what families down the ages, have given their lives for their country. Don't try telling them now that they did it for an unworthy cause.

If war were purely and absolutely bad in every single aspect and toxic in all its effects, it would probably not happen as often as it does. But in addition to all the destruction and loss of life, war also inspires ancient human virtues of courage, loyalty, and selflessness that can be utterly intoxicating to the people who experience them.

the men of these two outfits fought as if the outcome of the battle, and with it the war, depended on their valor: as indeed perhaps it did, since whoever had possession of this craggy height on the Union left would dominate the whole fishhook position. "The blood stood in puddles in some places on the rocks," Oates said later.

Forgiveness is the best part of valor...Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]

Forgiveness is the better part of valor. (Acheron) I always thought it was 'discretion.' (Thanatos) Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. (Acheron)

Death always before dishonor. (Julian)

La clemencia es la mayor demostración de valentía.

Recuerda que hace falta mucho valor y un gran corazón para demostrar ternura cuando no se ha conocido nunca. Hasta la bestia más feroz puede ser domesticada con paciencia y cariño. (Takeshi)

It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.

Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

A Warrior knows when a battle is worth fighting.

She sacrificed her life to make things right," Mitchell grumbled. "She[Silena Beuregard] was a hero

What takes more guts? To fight for your own life at any cost—or prove that you're willing to lose it?