Quotes About Valor

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

There's no point in sticking your pecker down a gun barrel to pee on the bullet, just to prove you have balls. That's a one-time deal and they don't give medals to peckerless pilots.

When Gonzalez and Canley were close enough to the machine gun they called for suppressing fire and then stood and hurled grenades. At the blast, they charged, firing their rifles on automatic, silencing the gun.

And why is strength so important? THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: Because it is only by becoming stronger that a man can realize his divinity. AUTHOR: In other words, through strength a man can become godlike? THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: Yes. And a godlike man—a man who is pure force, inaccessible to any compromise—is called a hero.

Almost any man worthy of his salt would fight to defend his home, but no one ever heard of a man going to war for his boarding house

The medals of the dead heroes are the coins for the future. (Les médailles des héros morts - Sont les pièces pour l'avenir.)

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

'What do you fear my lady?' 'A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of valor has gone beyond beyond recall or desire.

A soldier doesn't fight because he hates the enemy in front of him, he fights because he loves what he left behind.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

For 56 days they had given everything, endured everything; they had achieved the impossible, not once but again and again. They deserved to win; and if they were now being robbed of victory, then the real thieves weren't the People's Army, the 'rats of the Nam Youm', or anyone else in the filth of this last valley, but men who slept between clean sheets far away.

All those stories of Roman valour, heroism and self-sacrifice that he must have heard – told and retold around military campfires or at dinner tables – were not simply for amusement, he concluded. Their function was to encourage the young to imitate the gallant deeds of their ancestors; they were one aspect of the spirit of emulation, ambition and competition that he saw running right through Roman elite society.

Freedom is not free, everyday soldiers give their lives so that we can live ours.

a little exaggeration was always expected when describing weapons, victories, and body parts.

Jei zinterr … jei trévitoria. Be brave. Be victorious.

That is the definition of true courage," the teacher said quietly. "Being frightened, yet still doing what is right.

Some fusty fellow, perhaps Samuel Johnson, had once said that every man was sorry if he hadn't been a soldier. She

Quiero decir que la legitimidad de una cosa no viene determinada por la cantidad de valor que exige. Debió de requerir mucho valor asesinar a Abraham Lincoln, por ejemplo. ?Muy cierto. Yo diría que probablemente han sido más los individuos con complejos de inferioridad que han cometido delitos para demostrar su virilidad que incluso los que lo han hecho por dinero.

Cowards don't make history, brave people do.

They gave the world some of its finest heroes. Saving them's the least we can do.

Lives are lost in wars but it doesn't mean they shouldn't ever be fought.

It is better to die in the field of honour than to live in the chains of slavery;

he had avoided the full brunt of danger and still retained his dignity. And