Valor Quotes · Page 3

“Valor is a poor substitute for numbers”

— George R.R. Martin

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some nights, valor and cold purpose aren't enough.

— Janet Morris

The truly valiant dare everything but doing anybody an injury.

— Philip Sidney

“Cualquier ser capaz de demostrar valor no puede ser vil.”

— D.H. Lawrence

Valor is common but great souls are rare.

— Anonymous

“when it comes to battle, discipline beats valor every time.”

— George R.R. Martin

Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.

— Philip Sidney

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

— Paul Tsongas

Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.

— Anonymous

Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

— Chester W. Nimitz

Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.

— William Hazlitt

I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the…

— William H. Seward

The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage.

— Tullian Tchividjian

The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find…

— Barbara Tuchman

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To…

— Anonymous

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the…

— Anonymous

The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What…

— Joseph Conrad

We had a master sergeant present us with the Bronze Star of Valor he had gotten because he had felt we were…

— David Draiman

We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk,…

— Peter McWilliams

For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of…

— Carson McCullers

“War, not peace, produces virtue. War, not peace, purges vice. War, and preparation for war, call forth all that is noble and…

— Steven Pressfield

It's very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words 'heroes.' I feel…

— Chris Hayes

“I said, 'I have heard people talk about war as if it was a very fine thing.' Ah!' said [Captain], 'I should…

— Anna Sewell

Then what difference does human striving make: mortal struggle, valor, pain? If you live, then live for the test of spirit, for…

— Janet Morris

Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers than of…

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over.…

— Bob Dole

Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice.

— Agesilaus II

If all men were just, there would be no need of valor

— Anonymous

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

— Plutarch

What valor cannot win, flattery may.

— Publilius Syrus

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

— Pierre Corneille

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

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.

— William Shakespeare