Quotes About Valor

He wants worth who dares not praise a foe.

Dying a dozen times in mock battle is nothing. When it's for real you die but once.

Gesler kicked one of the severed heads across the deck. Its uneven thumping was loud in the still air. 'Who still wants to live for ever?" he growled, then spat.

If life is a battle, then my inner scars are medals for valor, for swiftness, for courage, for passion. Evil is the dark-haired brother of Good; they walk hand in hand—always.

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.

For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.

Like the American soldiers who went before them, they are putting their lives on the line to protect ours.

There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.

There's soldiers out there every day that are doing heroic things... We don't need to create them.

We've had soldiers that were so badly hurt and killed. I want their families to get something.

I have decorated soldiers for heroism before, and it was always such an honor to do it.

Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.

Soldiers are the biggest heroes. No one can be a bigger hero than them.

After all, you are a hero and everything.

Sensul vie?ii nu e fericirea, ci realiz?rile eroice.

Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero.

Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.

Suspiré.Nos amparaba el anochecer y aquel silencio de abandono que une a los extraños, y me sentí con valor de decir cualquier cosa, aunque fuese por última vez.

For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who - one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.

I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty.

The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.

If you're going to go out doing something, you might as well be fighting for your country or fighting for your life.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.