Valor Quotes · Page 4

There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned

— Henry Timrod

The Medal of Valor is this nation's highest and most prestigious award for public safety officers.

— William Barr

“No tenemos derecho a comparar el valor de una vida humana con otra.”

— Elizabeth Gaskell

I am bravery. I am courage. I am valor. I am daring. I am holding a thesaurus.

— Demetri Martin

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

— William Shakespeare

To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.

— Berthold Auerbach

It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Valour that parlies is neare yeelding. [Valor that parleys is near yielding.]

— George Herbert

A world is supported by four things: the learning of wise, the justice of great, the prayers of the righteous and the…

— Frank Herbert

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their…

— William Shakespeare

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having…

— Anonymous

This is true valor, I hope you know. Legends have sprung from less. All Lancelot did was paddle about in a balmy…

— Tessa Dare

As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me;…

— John Milton

We cherish too, the Poppy red That grows on fields where valor led, It seems to signal to the skies That blood…

— Moina Michael

“Sword rang on sword, the metallic sounds echoing throughout the wide market place and filling the crannies of every dark alley. Strength…

— Alicia A. Willis

What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious…

— William James

The Proverbs 31 woman is a star not because of what she does but how she does it—with valor. So do your…

— Rachel Held Evans

“The further he raided, the closer he came to the other rooms. Those unused, cobwebbed chambers of her heart. Would he dare…

— Tessa Dare

The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate…

— Henry David Thoreau

If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see…

— Henry David Thoreau

A good friend, who knows whereof he speaks, has observed of trials, ‘If it’s fair, it is not a true trial!’ That…

— Neal A. Maxwell

There is the National Flag. He must be cold, indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride…

— Charles Sumner

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.

— Tecumseh

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

— William Shakespeare

“West Virginia is among the nation’s leaders in military service, in killed in action, in medals for valor.”

— Rick Bragg

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

— William Shakespeare

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

— Thomas Browne

68. Be Brave. Even if youre not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.

— Anonymous

Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.

— Tecumseh

Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.

— Seneca the Younger

“Never on me let such wrath lay hold, as the wrath you cherish, you whose valor causes harm!”

— A.T. Murray

Everything is in flamenco. Spirituality, loyalty, humility, valor.

— Rosalia

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I am young, it is true; but in noble souls valor does not wait for years.

— Pierre Corneille

Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.

— William Rounseville Alger

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

— Pierre Corneille

“Sometimes lying was the better part of valor and the only way to save a man’s butt. ”

— Christine Feehan