Valor Quotes · Page 4

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

— Christine Feehan

Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity.

— Ovid

He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.

— Pierre Corneille

Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.

— Tecumseh

Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.

— Tecumseh

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

— Anonymous

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

— Tecumseh

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

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn…

— William Shakespeare

“It takes valor to identify your breaking points and refuse to allow people/circumstances use them to force you say/do things you don’t…

— Assegid Habtewold

Forgiveness is the best part of valor...Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

And I love doing my radio show and I love some of the other interests that I have. But I really feel…

— Ed McCaffrey

Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as…

— Adlai Stevenson I

“I heard that "discretion is the better part of valor" from someone. Dunno exactly what that means but if it means not…

— R.L. Kiser

Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse…

— Michel de Montaigne

If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would…

— Jane Porter

(Scottish Terriers) have all the compactness of a small dog and all the valor of a big one. And they are so…

— Dorothy Parker

The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment…

— David Foster Wallace

Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some…

— Immanuel Kant

Successful or not, acts of physical courage always bring honor. It is the smaller forms of valor - standing up for principle…

— Michael Josephson

Five years from the date of the attack that changed our world, we've come back to remember the valor of those we…

— Rudy Giuliani

No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most…

— Michel de Montaigne

The vigorous branching of life's tree, and not the accumulating valor of mythical marches to progress, lies behind the persistence and expansion…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to…

— Joshua Chamberlain

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

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

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

— Tecumseh

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

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

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

Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.

— Ben Jonson

Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast.

— Silius Italicus

My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Valor was in Nikodemos, unquestionable, and commitment like trees to stand or night to fall.

— Janet Morris