Quotes About Valor

Arma virumque canto.

ARMS, and the man I sing

I want to resemble a sort of liquid light which stretches beyond visibility or invisibility. Tonight I wish to have the valor and daring to belong to the moon

A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.

You honor us well, warrior." - Lucan

Our Hero welcomed Death.

Malo Mori Quam Foedari: I would rather die then be dishonored.

Ambrose Redmoon wrote, "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the decision that something else is more important than fear.

según la tradición, los héroes debemos salvar a las doncellas de monstruos y encantamientos para probar nuestro valor y nuestro amor hacia ellas. ¿Y si ella me salvase a mí por una vez?

I come away from this book with the deepest appreciation for what these men endured, and what they sacrificed, for the good of humanity. It is to them that this book is dedicated. Laura Hillenbrand May 2010

On the strength of his reputation as a soldier, nobleman

One Irishman, Melaghin McCabb, claimed he slaughtered eighty Spaniards with his axe.

No guts, no glory.

The with forbidden the death of warriors

No person ever really lives until he has found something worth dying for.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

You'll live. Only the best get killed.

Cowards excuse themselves by the children. Heroes excuse the children. (Les lâches s'excusent par les enfants. - Les héros excusent les enfants.)

The medals of the dead heroes are the coins for the future. (Les médailles des héros morts - Sont les pièces pour l'avenir.)

What was the point of being selfless and brave if no one knew about it?

The overseas frontier—wars in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, the Philippines, Nicaragua, and Haiti—acted as a prism, refracting the color line abroad back home. In each military occupation and prolonged counterinsurgency they fought, southerners could replay the dissonance of the Confederacy again and again. They could fight in the name of the loftiest ideals—liberty, valor, self-sacrifice, camaraderie—while putting down people of color.

You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

Corazón Valiente