Valor Quotes

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)
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years. View quote
Pierre Corneille
What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious courage which Robert Shaw showed when he marched with you, men of the Seventh Regiment. It is that more lonely courage which he showed when he dropped his warm commission in the glorious Second to head your dubious fortunes, negroes of the Fifty-fourth. That lonely kind of courage (civic courage as we call it in times of peace) is the kind of valor to which the monuments of nations should most of all be reared. View quote
William James
The vigorous branching of life's tree, and not the accumulating valor of mythical marches to progress, lies behind the persistence and expansion of organic diversity in our tough and constantly stressful world. And if we do not grasp the fundamental nature of branching as the key to life's passage across the geological stage, we will never understand evolution aright. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet. View quote
Douglas Adams
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 will, he stands. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
In a false quarrel there is no true valor. View quote
William Shakespeare
Discretion is the better part of valor. (William Shakespeare)
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life. View quote
William Shakespeare
...what really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out - not the sunshine patriots but those who are willing to stand for a long period of time. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Forgiveness is the best part of valor... Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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. View quote
James Wolfe
Valor is common but great souls are rare. View quote
Bernard-Joseph Saurin
True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike. View quote
David Mallet
The sweet imperious mouth, whose haughty valor Defied all portents of impending doom. View quote
Sarah Helen Whitman
Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in return. View quote
John McCain
Every ship from the New World came freighted with marvels which put the fictions of chivalry to shame; and to the Spaniard of that day America was a region of wonder and mystery, of vague and magnificent promise. Thither adventurers hastened, thirsting for glory and for gold, and often mingling the enthusiasm of the crusader and the valor of the knight-errant with the bigotry of inquisitors and the rapacity of pirates. They roamed over land and sea; they climbed unknown mountains, surveyed unknown oceans, pierced the sultry intricacies of tropical forests; while from year to year and from day to day new wonders were unfolded, new islands and archipelagoes, new regions of gold and pearl, and barbaric empires of more than Oriental wealth. The extravagance of hope and the fever of adventure knew no bounds. View quote
Francis Parkman
Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor. (Virgil)
It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state of order again; for the nature of mundane affairs not allowing them to continue in an even course, when they have arrived at their greatest perfection, they soon begin to decline. In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend; and thus from good they gradually decline to evil, and from evil again return to good. The reason is, that valor produces peace; peace, repose; repose, disorder; disorder, ruin; so from disorder order springs; from order virtue, and from this, glory and good fortune. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
They understood in their heart that it was indispensable to be brave; that Odin would have no favor for them, but despise and thrust them out, if they were not brave. Consider too whether there is not something in this! It is an everlasting duty, valid in our day as in that, the duty of being brave. Valor is still value. The first duty for a man is still that of subduing Fear. We must get rid of Fear; we cannot act at all till then. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
When did you become a shivering old woman," Okonkwo asked himself, "you, who are known in all the nine villages for your valor in war? How can a man who has killed five men in battle fall to pieces because he has added a boy to their number? Okonkwo, you have become a woman indeed. View quote
Chinua Achebe
Wit and valor are qualities that are more easily ascertained than virtue, or the love of wisdom. View quote
Edward Gibbon