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Quotes About Valor

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
How can a man commit acts of martial valour if he values his life?
~ Torii Mototada
Firemen never die, they just burn forever in the hearts of the people whose lives they saved.
~ Susan Diane Murphree
Maybe being brave is different from being unafraid. If you're not afraid, what is there to be brave about?
~ Susan Meissner
Oh, man. Yeah, Wes was going to kill him. But before he did, Bobby would ask them to put four words on his tombstone : It Was Worth It.
~ Suzanne Brockmann
Yeah, Wes was going to kill him. But before he did, Bobby would ask them to put four words on his tombstone: It Was Worth It.
~ Suzanne Brockmann
How many times would you do it, you think? How many times would you sacrifice yourself for good?" "Every time," I answer automatically.
~ Suzanne Young
There is salvation only for the brave.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Never was a miser a brave soul.
~ George Herbert
Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?
~ Arthur Hugh Clough
No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends.
~ Jesus of Nazareth
No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends (John 15:13).
~ John the Evangelist
Love Is An Act Of Valour.
~ Amit Abraham
all brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for.
~ Nathanial Hawthorne
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Thomas Paine was so inspired by the heroism displayed at Fort Mifflin that he published an open letter to William Howe: 'You are fighting for what you can never obtain and we are defending what we never mean to part with.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
Soon after, Tom, all of twenty years old, became the only soldier in the Civil War to win two Medals of Honor. In
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
who, like other weak men, grew in valor as his opponent seemed inclined to make peace
~ Charles Kingsley
But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.
~ Thucydides
In the interests of truth, however, I want to make it clear that Norman Bowker was in no way responsible for what happened to Kiowa. Norman did not experience a failure of nerve that night. He did not freeze up or lose the Silver Star for valor. That part of the story is my own.
~ Tim O'Brien
It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor. Rather, they were too frightened to be cowards.
~ Tim O'Brien
War makes you a man; war makes you dead.
~ Tim O'Brien
A mere matter of falling, yet no one ever fell. It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor. Rather, they were too frightened to be cowards.
~ Tim O'Brien
Stop to mourn for every good man that's died for us and you'd never get from bed to the chamber-pot.
~ Tim Powers