Valor Quotes

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.

There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valor.

I am less affected by their heroism who stood up for half an hour in the front line at Buena Vista, than by the steady and cheerful valor of the men who inhabit the snow-plow for their winter quarters; who have not merely the three-o'-clock-in-the-morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest, but whose courage does not go to rest so early, who go to sleep only when the storm sleeps or the sinews of their iron steed are frozen.

Fight valiantly to-day; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor.

It is war's prize to take all vantages;And ten to one is no impeach of valor.

Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!

Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.

Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.

The fewer men, the greater share of honor.

What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious courage which Robert Shaw showed when he marched with you, men of the Seventh Regiment. It is that more lonely courage which he showed when he dropped his warm commission in the glorious Second to head your dubious fortunes, negroes of the Fifty-fourth. That lonely kind of courage (civic courage as we call it in times of peace) is the kind of valor to which the monuments of nations should most of all be reared.

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.

It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.

What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn him with his foot away?