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Quotes About Valor

Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.
~ Douglas Adams
deciding that just as discretion was the better part of valor, so was cowardice the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.
~ Douglas Adams
just as discretion was the better part of valor, so was cowardice the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in the closet.
~ Douglas Adams
Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion was the better part of valor, so was cowardice the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet. The
~ Douglas Adams
Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.
~ Aeschylus
They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn
~ Aeschylus
A hero is brave in deeds as well as words.
~ Aesop
If all men were just, there would be no need of valor.
~ Agesilaus
I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.
~ Tim O'Brien
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
~ Sallust
People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.
~ John Boyne
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
~ H. L. Mencken
It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen.
~ Horatio Nelson
There is something of the warrior in me.
~ Lech Walesa
Americans rightly, but sometimes excessively, celebrate every person in uniform as a hero, but seldom honor the difficult and often dangerous work being done day after day by members of our diplomatic corps. Warriors capture the popular imagination more easily than peacemakers.
~ David Horsey
It's an amazing thing to hear they're finally giving out a Medal of Honor to a soldier from the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.
~ Tim Hetherington
If she was going to be brave, then be brave.
~ Rachel Hauck
the sword was of value only when a person of courage and restraint protected life with it.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
There is always safety in valor
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What a new face courage puts on everything.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There will always be a just fight and a cause to die for.
~ Rawi Hage
The words used to describe the heroes of D-Day are not the current lexicon we tend to use for success. Humble, selfless, brave. Those are not words we attach in 2019 to superstars.
~ Martha MacCallum
down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero
~ Raymond Chandler
All warriors have scars. They're marks of valor.
~ Julie Garwood