Quotes About Valor

Better to Die in Honour than to live in Shame. -Arra Sails

He tried to calm his thoughts, but everything came back to what he'd almost done. Because he hadn't done anything, for years or ever, he had almost done this. Because he had no stories of valor, he had almost done this. Because the efforts he'd made towards creating something like a legacy had failed, he had almost done this.

Smart, dedicated people lost their lives all the time as they trained to be the best they could be to serve their country. Celebrities broke a nail and they immediately took to Twitter, alerting their millions of followers to the "injury," which in turn elicited thousands of replies from people with apparently not enough going on in their lives. And all the while brave men and women died in silence, forgotten by all except their families.

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for." — J. R. R. Tolkien

I want a sword not a knitting needle -Kalen

And a hero isn't someone who doesn't feel fear, they're someone who in spite of their fear does the right thing and really risks their own safety

Here is the truth - actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested. - David Foster Wallace, from The Pale King

What qualities are there for which a man gets so speedy a return of applause, as those of bodily superiority, activity, and valour? Time out of mind strength and courage have been the theme of bards and romances; and from the story of Troy down to to-day, poetry has always chosen a soldier for a hero. I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valour so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship?

Él era una mezcla de príncipe y bandido que se creía ungido para ser el amo del mundo, que fue oscureciendo su alma en guerras salvajes, resbalando a la infamia casi sin darse cuenta, pero que tenía en su corazón suficiente valor y tal vez demasiada grandeza para resignarse a ser un canalla.

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

As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.

To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.)

He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.

I am a bastard, too. I love bastards! I am bastard begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard in valor, in everything illegitimate.

So well thy words become thee as thy wounds, They smack of honor both.

Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage?

Now put your shields before your hearts and fight / With hearts more proof than shields. Advance, my fellows!

Now he'll outstare the lighting. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear, and in that mood The dove will peck the estridge; and I see still A diminution in our captain's brain Restores his heart. When valor preys on reason, It eats the sword it fights with.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor

Princes and Counties! Surely, a princely testimony, a goodly Count Comfect; a sweet gallant, surely! O! that I were a man for his sake, or that I had any friend would be a man for my sake! But manhood is melted into curtsies, valour into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones too: he is now as valiant as Hercules, that only tells a lie and swears it. I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.

William Shakespeare

Quieres lograr lo que estimas ornamento de la vida y en tu propia estimación vivir como un cobarde, poniendo el no me atrevo al servicio del quiero como el gato del refrán? MACBETH: ¡Ya basta! Me atrevo a todo lo que sea digno de un hombre, quien se atreva a más, no lo es.

Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee, two of the. noblest men ever born on the American continent.

En aquellos días duros, la derrota no era juzgada con indulgencia por los extenuados aliados y todos tuvimos que sobreponernos a ello, con cortesía que apenas velaba el menosprecio y con simpatía que apenas dominaba al resentimiento. Y he de rendir aquí un tributo a la dignidad y al valor tranquilo del ministro italiano y al respeto que supo inspirar a todos en aquellas tristes circunstancias.