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Quotes About Valor

Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
~ Samuel Johnson
Between cowardice and despair valour is gendered.
~ John Donne
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
~ Horace Smith
Courage is the footstool of the Virtues upon which they stand.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Valor is stability not of legs and arms but of courage and the soul.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Where there is a brave man in the thickest of the fight there is the post of honor.
~ Henry David Thoreau
To do something you're afraid of, especially for the sake of somebody else, is the very definition of courage.
~ Michelle Harrison, One Wish
Men perish by the sword cowards by disease.
~ Unknown
There is no such thing as bravery only degrees of fear.
~ John Wainwright
All men would be cowards if they durst.
~ Unknown
We could be cowards if we had courage enough.
~ Thomas Fuller
We would be cowards if we had courage enough.
~ Thomas Fuller
A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.
~ Thomas Fuller
All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
~ General George S. Patton
Courage is the virtue which champions the cause of right.
~ Cicero
Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
~ Carl Sandburg
Nothing is as valuable to a man as courage.
~ Terence
Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves but the first to rescue when others are endangered.
~ Jean Paul Richter
A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.
~ Julius Caesar
Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.
~ Quintus Curtius Rufus
To me death is better than the defensive.
~ Alexander Suvorov
Better be killed than frightened to death.
~ Robert Smith Surtees
Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
~ Tacitus