Quotes About Valor

Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul

Antigonus, having taken one of his soldiers into a great degree of favor and esteem for his valor, gave his physicians strict charge to cure him of a long and inward disease under which he had a great while languished, and observing that, after his cure, he went much more coldly to work than before, he asked him what had so altered and cowed him: "Yourself, sir," replied the other, "by having eased me of the pains that made me weary of my life.

His only words were that he regarded cowardice as one of the worst human sins.

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices

In the soldier we see the love of country. When you are willing to go onto a battlefield and give your life to defend an ideal ... knowing that you may not live through day.

This Land Is Protected By Million's Blood Bath, If Needed, We'll Fight Again By Sipping The Death Bowl....

he bore himself through it like a moral Viking.

I think your husband has that something about him that defines honor very narrowly. I fear he is the stuff of which martyrs are made. (Tom Lasser, p. 358)

Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does have some magic. Personally, I think it's the warrior who wields it.

Capital, cried Basil. I could eat a stag, antlers and all. I say they they do make a wonderful nosebag for us wounded heroes, y'know.

All those men had died for some senseless reason, died perhaps without ever knowing exactly what they had fought to accomplish.

Perhaps that's why men did it. You didn't do it to save duchesses, or countries. You killed the enemy to stop him killing your mates, that they in turn might save you ...

Gettysburg is at risk of becoming a place of war worship. In our desperation to perceive valor and courage that may not be present in our own lives, we glorify a terrible slaughter of men and boys. The myth that war propagates and that our national memory perpetuates is that all soldiers are valiant and brave, and that American history is a history victorious instead of shadowed and scarred.

I shot down two airplanes in Korea, so I wasn't a slouch.

For a real knight, rescuing maidens would be an everyday event." ... "Perhaps a true knight saves himself for the right maiden

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

They flicked the reins and were carried far ahead of the men, with that violent female daring which is so far from manly valor.

Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.

Courage comes with action.

Initiative, creativity, and valor can't be commanded.