Quotes About Valor

Fear is essential for courage.

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

Those who do not fear the sword they wield have no right to wield a sword at all. ~Shuhei Hisagi

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

He who does not fear the sword he holds is not worthy of holding a sword. -Hisagi Shuuhei

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

His favorite book was Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire,

American Sniper,

Last, but not least, Unferth, Hrothgar's left-handed man, unexpectedly stanned for Beowulf, and handed him his heirloom, Hrunting, an ancient hilted sword, written with runes of ruin, iron blade emblazoned with poison shoots, each bud reddened with enemy blood. In war, it never failed to score flesh, had never been wrested from the fist of him who held it. It was a sublime solider's sword, meant to limb enemies, and this wasn't the first time it urged a hero to perform a feat.

If you're not afraid, how can you be really brave?

Being brave is only standing up when you're afraid.

Forgiveness is the best part of valor...Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget.

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

Freedom is never free.

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

...knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy's onset.

Hundreds would die, but not the thing they died for.

Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends.

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave