Men Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Michel de Montaigne

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Adlai Stevenson I

Valor is the soldier's adornment.

— Livy

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

— Janet Morris

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.

— Walter Scott

The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.

— Andrew Bernstein

Valor is the contempt of death and pain.

— Tacitus

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

— Tacitus

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

— Publilius Syrus