Quotes About Valor

I absolutely hate the way the United States glorifies its military and its wars. Real heroes fight for peace.

They [442nd Regimental Combat Team] did more than defend America. They helped define America at its best...Rarely has a nation been so well served by a people it has so ill-treated.

Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field where men win fame.

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Wisdom and courage make mutual contributions to greatness.

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Por su hombría está obligado a ser sano de cuerpo, prudente, lleno de entereza, honrado, orgulloso de sí mismo, intrépido, digno de sus antepasados y de su historia, paciente en la adversidad, intolerante con la debilidad de carácter, ascético, frugal y valeroso. Debe ser magnánimo y celoso de su honor, porque el hombre sin honor es lo más bajo que hay y se debe temer más al cobarde que al perverso.

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for.

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

If I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

But in the hero ne'er forget the man.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.

Let us not mourn that such men died, but rejoice that such men lived.

All men would be cowards if they only had the courage.

What men in all the world have shown such daring?

Brave men are brave from the very first.

I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none

There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

Fearless for oneself, fear for others—that must be what it means to be a hero.