Quotes About Valor

Death, as well as fortune, is rather fond of the brave.

Había evitado las balas como las evitan los valientes, precipitándose a su encuentro.

The mark of the true male is courage, but to have courage the man must take heart.

Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's the choice that something else is greater than that fear.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

A politician who really serves his country well, and deserves his country's gratitude, must usually possess some of the hardy virtues which we admire in the soldier who serves his country well in the field. Far

To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods.

Then out spake brave Horatius, the Captain of the Gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods... Lays of Ancient Rome

The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

It is an everlasting duty, valid in our day as in that, the duty of being brave. Valor is still value. The first duty for a man is still that of subduing Fear. We must get rid of Fear; we cannot act at all till then. A man's acts are slavish, not true but specious; his very thoughts are false, he thinks too as a slave and coward, till he have got Fear under his feet.

As the president put the Medal of Honor around my neck, I felt the history and the weight of a nation.

We must never forget or diminish the sacrifices of those who gave everything for this nation.

Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.

He was a warrior, a modern-day white knight.

Give me courage. Flash. Give me heart. Flash.

Again, Benji was reminded of the girl's absurd bravery. She had nothing to gain here. The man, Clade Berman, was nowhere near her own sister. He presented no danger to anyone but his own family. That marked her as someone who had a lot of untapped courage - there was that word again, echoing the conversation with Arav - or someone who cared little for herself or her own life. (He wondered idly, How often do those two things intertwine?)

Shakespeare say? Discretion is the better part of valor?

Discretion's the better part of valor

Arma virumque cano......... *Literally: I sing of arms and man. __I sing the praises of a man's stuggles__

Frantic in my fury I had no time for decisions; I only remembered that death in battle is glorious.

Ter circum Iliacos raptaverat Hectora muros, exanimumque auro corpus vendebat Achilles.

Believe one who hath proved it, how mightily he rises over his shield, in what a whirlwind he hurls his spear.