Quotes About Valor

War is hell, but smoking cigarettes makes it all worth while

Never have so many given so much for so long for so little for so few for so seldom.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Knights of the Silver Hand

Garrosh would learn that it was in how one fought, not where or when, that honor was born.

We've never heard About a marvel quite so great, For all the heroes who have lived In history can't measure up In bravery against the Maid.

Sometimes lying was the better part of valor and the only way to save a man's butt.

while courage is not in itself one of the primary virtues, it is the quality that makes the exercise of the virtues possible.

Ah, Lazarus, said the Emperor, scratching his charge behind the ears, if we had even half the courage of our small comrade, we would go into that drain and find him. But what are we without him, our courage, our valor? Steady and righteous we may be, my friend, but without courage to risk ourselves for our brother, we are but politicians - blustering whores to rhetoric.

If any honor existed in war, it was in fighting to protect others from harm

El valor está precisamente en hacerlo, pero el valor desaparece cuando uno abandona la voluntad de cambiar y de vivir la vida. Las alternativas están delante de ti: elige una y dedícate a ella. Las acciones te darán nuevas esperanzas y un sentido a tu vida.

If any honor existed in war, he concluded, it was in fighting to protect others from harm.

Without fear there cannot be courage

A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.

Feel no fear before the multitude of men, do not run in panic, but let each man bear his shield straight toward the fore-fighters, regarding his own life as hateful and holding the dark spirits of death as dear as the radiance of the sun.

That was the irony of the free enterprise system, so ardently praised by the enterprisers; the system could keep the people in comfort so long as the energies of the community were being devoted to killing other people; but the moment they settled down to enjoy the peace their valor had won, they found themselves heading into another depression, with breadlines and apple-selling on the streets and boondoggling and leaf-raking on the country roads.

El soldado de hierro vale tanto como el duque de hierro.

For the first time in his life, he was going to be a goddamn hero.

During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.

True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid...

Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching.

He led, and Ziri knew firsthand how his fearlessness spread like wildfire in the fray. It was what made him great.

One finds nobility in the oddest places.

I don't think she doesn't believe she can die. I think, just like you always did, she believes there are things worth dying for.