Quotes About Valor

But he was not a coward...not so much to the idea of pouring out human blood and life, but at the idea of waste of wearing out and eating up and shooting away material in any cause whatever.

Ay, sir," Alec said, who had long since found out that no man has courage but that any man may blunder blindly into valor as one stumbles into an open manhole in the street.

We are men of action. Lies do not become us. -- Westley

May my hands fall from my wrists before I kill an artist like yourself, said the man in black. I would as soon destroy da Vinci. However—and here he clubbed Inigo's head with the butt of his sword—since I can't have you following me either, please understand that I hold you in the highest respect.

Objects foraged out of Nazis' quarantine, fenced for colossal sums in the black markets of the world outside. Manifs stolen while the partisans fight for liberation, while Thibaut and his comrades face down devils and fascists and errant art, and die.

where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?

Potem dobywa nagiego i przetrzymawszy chwilk? w d?oni wk?ada z powrotem do pochwy. Wiedzcie, ?e pi?knie mu z mieczem u boku, a jeszcze pi?kniej – z mieczem w d?oni.

When a man fails to honour ladies, his own honour must be dead.

Who knows which takes more courage—to die in battle, or to live in vain? It cuts all of us in two, I suppose." Hamilton

La medida de su grandeza personal no es tanto lo que encontraron al final del camino sino más bien la fortaleza de carácter que los acompañó a lo largo del mismo: su imaginación, voluntad, perseverancia, valor, recursos y decisión de arrostrar el peligro del fracaso.

Look around you. It's an honor to fight beside you. Today we choose to fight. For the freedom to fight on other days. So we remember what's worth fighting for.

A senior chief told me the other day: "You should know that the ac complishments of your soldiers will be written in capital letters on the first page of the immortal book of great deeds of the German soldiers in the year 1942, even when the newspapers report less about them than about the obvious successes of the other fronts." We are thankful for the kind words.

Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.

A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.

You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.

They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.

after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one hero less on earth

Your whole life should be lived as a heroic deed

En el combate, un hombre miedoso está perdido. El valor, más aún que exponer, se impone, porque la muerte también, con tal de que se la mire a la cara, se deja asustar

So tremendously did he fight that he made killing almost holy...

The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction.