Quotes About Valor

Si quieres crear héroes, no les des algo por lo que luchar. Dales a alguien por quien luchar.

Valor y miedo van siempre de la mano. Hace falta valor para vivir y valor para morir.

The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have.

Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy.

Henry went down on one knee. 'Like King Arthur's knights,' Mr. Fogarty had told him, but he didn't feel much like a knight. In fact he felt like a twit.

That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man.

With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.

Greatness demands great courage.

When all the battles are fought then the biggest battle is, the battle to honour and treasure the hard won victory.

There are some battles, no matter how much you don't want to fight them, that you just have to fight. That are worth giving your life for.

verray, parfit gentil knyght'.

In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "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?' No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.

Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that 'they had looked at and smelled death all around them all day but never even dreamed of applying the term to themselves. They hadn't come here to fear. They hadn't come to die. They had come to win.

No war can be won without young men dying. Those things which are precious are saved only by sacrifice.

At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.

The medics were the most popular, respected, and appreciated men in the company. Their weapons were first-aid kits, their place on the line was wherever a man called out that he was wounded.

It was a good day to die, but nobody did.

Second Lieutenant William Carey and two other men continued the fight, even when Carey's skull was creased by a musket ball.

greatest knight that ever lived

Mejor morir en la batalla que vivir como un cobarde.

If I have learned anything in my time among you, it is this: true honor lives not in the skill of weapons or the strength of arms, but in virtue. Skill fades and strength fails; virtue alone remains. Therefore, let us put off all that is false. Let us prefer instead the valor of virtue, and the glory of right.

But heroes, at times, had to be fools.