Quotes About Valor

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

The virtues of valor and love of liberty; the only virtues which can have place among an uncivilized people, where justice and humanity are commonly neglected.

Pour le Mérite

There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.

Gentleman, God created you with the heart of a warrior. Until there's something you're willing to die for, you can't truly live.

I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.

God himself favors the brave.

I thank God tonight for freedom - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future.

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

Valor is common but great souls are rare.

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

No great thing comes to any person unless that person has courage.

The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.

There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

When you go home, tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow we gave our today.

Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.

Set honor in one eye and death in th' other, and I will look on both indifferently. I love then name of honor more than I fear death.

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.

The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.

To die with honor when one can no longer live with honor.