Quotes About Valor

The dead of an army become automatically heroes like the dead of the Church become Martyrs.

One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.

Whatever you do in life, do it with courage

Nations neglect no men more shamefully than the heroes of their wars.

If the Marines today are doing exactly the same thing their dads did in Vietnam and their granddads did in Korea and World War II, then how in the hell can we say that they're not as good?

America's men and women in uniform bravely defend our nation and our values. Their skill, dedication, and valor are the envy of the world. When their time in uniform is over, they are entitled to world-class health care, a benefit they've earned and that their country is grateful to provide for them.

I want to score but when you think of the soldiers in Iraq with bullets flying around their heads you realise a penalty isn't something to get too worried about.

The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse.

War is the way that gods breed cowards

The cause doesn't have to be righteous and battle doesn't have to be winnable; but over and over again throughout history, men have chosen to die in battle with their friends rather than to flee on their own and survive.

In answer to them, the youth, standing up in the Hall of Heroes, with spear in one hand, and shield in the other, exclaimed: "I care not whether I die to-morrow or next year, if only my deeds live after me.

Cuchullain died as a hero should — on a battlefield, with his back to a rock and his face to the foe, buckler on arm, and spear in hand. He died standing, and in that defiant attitude (supported by the rock) was many days dead ere the enemy dared venture near enough to reassure themselves of his exit — which they only did when they saw the vultures alight upon him, and, undisturbed, peck at his flesh.

Brave doesn't mean 'fearless,' you know. It means doing the right thing even if you're frightened.

Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right.

"What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching."

Heroism isn't a one time thing: Live Heroically.

It was a fear that disappeared once the action started, to be replaced by the mad bloodlust that was sometimes called courage.

There aren't any 'warriors' on a battlefield." Her scornful voice ran on, trembling, in rough Carthaginian, and she let it: "There's you and your buddy, and you and your mates, and you and your boss. A lance. The smallest unit on the field is eight or ten men. Nobody's a hero on their own. One man alone out there is dead meat.

each body a lion of courage, and something precious to the earth.

ese valor y ese amor a la verdad se oponen al holgazán y al vagabundo que va de un lado al otro, asegurando orgulloso que ha alcanzado casi la perfección de un lunático porque es un artista sin la menor idea de lo que su arte es o significa.

Heroes may be less than heroic, while the common man saves the day.

When gentlemen agreed to a duel, they were fighting not for money or land or even women but for honor, the strange commodity that exists because everyone believes that everyone else believes that it exists.

Knights do protect ladies, but only to keep them from being abducted by other knights.

Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.