Quotes About Valor

Why does the extraordinary courage of ordinary women go so unsung?

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.

A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? "Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man... only 500"?

The coward dies a thousand deaths — the brave man only 500.

Let a man nobly live or nobly die.

To live with glory, or with glory die, This is the brave man's part.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

A man can be a hero in any profession

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.

If free men refused to look at dead bodies then brave men will have died in vain.

If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?

Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons.

There is nothing so revered yet so reviled as war; for even as it brings out the worst in men, it also brings out the best in them.

If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?

Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

Gods and men honor those who have fought in battle.

History is littered with dead good men

Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.

True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.

Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.

Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.

Fighting men are the city's fortress.

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.