Valor Quotes

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.-Miguel de Cervantes

 

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.-Miguel de Cervantes

 

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.- Walter Bagehot

 

Medicine is a science of valour and an art of probability. - Sir William Osler

 

Thou hast done a deed where at valour will weep. - William Shakespeare

 

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

 

In valour there is hope. - Tacitus [Cornelius Tacitus]

 

Valour grows by daring, fear by holding back. - Publius [Publilius Syrus]

 

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valour? - Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro]

 

In a false quarrel there is no true valour. - William Shakespeare

 

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Valour is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. - Erich Fromm

 

Valour, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule, these constitute the duty of a soldier. They flow from his own nature. - Bhagavad Gita

 

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.-Paul Tsongas

 

As we continue to fight the war on terror, we express our gratitude to our troops whose valor over the last three years provided freedom to the Iraqis, while protecting our liberty here at home.-Tim Murphy

 

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.-Walter Bagehot

 

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.-William Shakespeare

 

It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.-William H. Seward

 

My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!-Richard Brinsley Sheridan

 

Of the Marines on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.-Chester W. Nimitz

 

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

 

Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.-James Wolfe

 

The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later.-Ernie Pyle

 

The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.-Bill Frist

 

There is always safety in valor.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.-Miguel de Cervantes

 

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.-David Mallet

 

True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.-Pierre Corneille

 

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.-Publilius Syrus

 

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.-Carl Sandburg

 

Valor is common but great souls are rare.-Bernard Joseph Saurin

 

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.-Tacitus

 

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.-Michel de Montaigne

 

Valor is superior to number.-Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

 

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.-Miguel de Cervantes

 

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?-Virgil