Quotes About Valor

These higher-order capabilities are the products of passion, of a commitment to something that inspires us, something outside ourselves that needs and deserves the best of who we are. Initiative, creativity, and valor can't be commanded. They are gifts. Every employee gets to decide, "Do I bring these gifts to work today, or not?" and as the Gallup data suggests, the answer is usually "no" and, sometimes, "hell, no.

Reputation was everything in the Old South. The opinion of others was a measure of inner worth. Virtue, honor, valor, and respect simply did not exist apart from the view of a man in the minds of other men.

I'll be dead, I'll not care either way. What matters is how I die.' 'And how will that be?' 'Fighting for freedom and the lives of my companions, bana-madam.

Vale más tener una cicatriz por valiente que la piel intacta por cobarde.

No quiero a ningún hombre en mi barco que no tenga miedo de la ballena», decía Starbuck. Con esto parecía insinuar no sólo que el valor más seguro y más útil es el que surge de una justa estimación del peligro que se afronta, sino también que un hombre que ignora el miedo es compañero mucho más riesgoso que un cobarde. —Sí

it is a thing most sorrowful, nay shocking, to expose the fall of valor in the soul. Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but, man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

El valor más útil y digno de confianza es el que surge de la estimación realista del peligro encontrado, sino que un hombre totalmente sin miedo es un compañero mucho mas peligroso que un cobarde.

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.

As the youth came on in front of the others, he got the bronze in his chest beside the right nipple. On through his shoulder it went and he fell to earth in the dust like a sooth black poplar whose branchy top falls in the low grassland of a mighty marsh to the gleaming ax of some chariot-maker, who leaves t to dry by the banks of a river that he may bend him a rim for a beautiful chariot. Even such was the fall of Anthemion's son Simoeisius

But the Achaian men went silently, breathing valor,        stubbornly minded each in his heart to stand by the others.

it is the cowards who walk out of the fighting, but if one is to win honor in battle, he must by all means 410  stand his ground strongly, whether he be struck or strike down another.

Show yourselves men my friends, and keep a stout heart. Think of your honour. With all men's eyes upon you it is a shame to be a coward. He that fights and will not run may live to see another sun. He that runs and will not fight is bound to die and serves him right.

some day let them say of him: 'He is better by far than his father,' 480  as he comes in from the fighting

For many a Trojan, many a Greek, that day Prone in the dust, and side by side, were laid.

Patroclus equal of Ares came out; and that was the beginning of his end.

Well do I know that though cowards quit the field, a hero, whether he wound or be wounded, must stand firm and hold his own.

be always best in battle and pre-eminent beyond all others

There was no room for fear in Achilles' heart and he sprang at the Trojans with his terrible war-cry.

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

Tú pasa adentro y no te turbes en tu ánimo, pues un hombre con arrojo resulta ser el mejor en toda acción, aunque llegue de otra tierra.

He says that courage is a capital sum reduced by expenditure.

We've got to protect our young men and women and we've got to win that, whatever the cost.

Brave people such as my Uncle Leonard were willing to put themselves at risk to preserve what they valued in life and young men and women today continue to make those sacrifices for our country.