Quotes About Valor

There is a use for fighting men, isn't there?" she brooded. "Use for 'em?" laughed Corson. "Why, lady, how come we to be sitting here? Because gents have fought to put us here! How come this is part of God's country? Because a lot of folks buckled on guns to make it that! Use

Wainwright, who did his duty more impressively than MacArthur

The American and British armies in the Second World War paid a high price for the privilege of the profoundly anti-militaristic ethos of their nations.

Looking back later, we could see that the military code was unreasonable. But at that time, we regarded dying for our country as our duty. If men had been allowed to surrender honourably, everybody would have been doing it.

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

A coward can be a hero, but a hero cannot be a coward.

A hand with a sword is a dirty hand; a man with a gun is a coward man.

Courage makes the things easier!

Gun is the instrument of the coward and the weak!

The high courage of a single man is an army all by itself!

To be a dwarf in peace is more honourable than to be a giant in war!

Respect the Sword, Grimm.

I learned always to avoid glorious campaigns—everyone is more likely to die in glorious campaigns.

Godric Gryffindor

Cedric Diggory

How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?

Courage is always an act, not a thought. You cannot think your way into courage; you act your way into courage. Asking

I know it sounds foolishly old fashioned, but I'm stuck with this idea that there's something dignified and noble about facing your enemy and looking him in the eye before you thrust a saber in his heart.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them. J.R.R . TOLKIEN

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Rune: "They're getting away!" Thatz: "Our Dragon Knights honor is at stake! Let's get 'em!" Rath: "'Dragon Knights honor'? Really?

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

Although the operators fought the battle and by all accounts saved about twenty American lives, because they were neither CIA staffers nor active military personnel they were deemed ineligible for even higher awards, awards that went to other men who played smaller roles and never fired a shot. As

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.