Quotes About Valor

Il coraggio è resistenza alla paura e dominio della paura, ma non assenza di paura.

Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry. Yes. I like that a lot.

and it feels good to be good for something in the aftermath of the snows of Stalingrad

If a man has not discovered something that he could die for, he's not fit to live.

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done. It's for men to do them, and for women to reserve their love as a reward for such men.

Hay dos clases de valentía: la del valiente y la del cobarde

officers in the army, (except those in the highest positions), are paid most inadequately for the services they perform; and the deficiency is made up by honor, which is represented by titles and orders, and, in general, by the system of rank and distinction.

People readily demonstrate a willingness to sacrifice their safety and survival for the sake of something beyond themselves, such as family, country, or justice.

Had they stayed just a few seconds longer, they would have plunged into the fire themselves.

En la vejez y la enfermedad se requieren dos tipos de valor. El primero es el valor para afrontar la realidad de la mortalidad –el valor de querer saber la verdad de lo que cabe temer y lo que cabe esperar–

La [G]uerra [de Independencia] supuso para España la pérdida de una generación completa de desarrollo cultural y económico. Aunque los españoles se defendieron con valor, el ataque infligido por Francia fue brutal y el coste para España, elevadísimo.

you can manufacture weapons, and you can purchase ammunition, but you can't buy valor and you can't pull heroes off an assembly line.

These men were born to drill and die.             Point for them the virtue of the slaughter,             Make plain to them the excellence of killing             And a field where a thousand corpses lie.

In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' " Ã¢â'¬ËœNo,' I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.' 

Winters and Welsh simply walked toward the man, who took off. The Americans split the silverware between them. Forty-five years later, both men were still using the Berchtesgaden Hof's silverware in their homes. After getting what he most wanted out of the place, Winters then

If you want to be a hero, the Germans will make one out of you real quick—dead!

They knew fear together. Not only the fear of death or wound, but the fear that all this was for nothing.

In the excitement of a charge, or in the enthusiasm of approaching victory, there is a sense of pleasure which no one should attempt to underrate." General Horace Porter, aide-decamp to General Grant Custer

The contrast between Eisenhower and those generals who gloried in war could not have been greater. Small wonder that millions of Americans in the 1940s felt that if their loved one had to join the fight, Eisenhower was the general they wanted for his commander.

Pvt. Felix Branham was in that boat. "Colonel Canham had a BAR and a .45 and he was leading us in," Branham said. "There he was firing and he got his BAR shot out of his hand and he reached and he used his .45. He was the bravest guy."23

We sometimes forget, I think, that you can manufacture weapons, and you can purchase ammunition, but you can't buy valor and you can't pull heroes off an assembly line.

You may be gold, and we poor ordinary men may be of bronze, but ask any solier out there which metal they'd rather have for a sword blae or a spearpoint

That's the bravest thing, I think: not to be brave for yourself but for a buddy when it gets you nothing and costs you everything.

Soldiers could no longer die in the thousands, much less the hundreds.