Quotes and Sayings about Valor
"True valor lies between cowardice and rashness."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Cowardice, Lies, Valor)
"Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice."
- Miguel de Cervantes
(Related: Cowardice, Lies, Valor)
"True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years."
- Pierre Corneille
(Related: Valor, Years)
"There is always safety in valor."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Safety, Valor)
"The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect."
- Bill Frist
(Related: Men, Women, Courage, Example, Respect, Valor, World)
"Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange."
- Jean-Francois Lyotard
(Related: Knowledge, Goal, Order, Will)
"True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike."
- David Mallet
(Related: Virtue, Events, Valor)
"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."
- Michel de Montaigne
(Related: Soul, Courage, Stability, Valor)
"As we continue to fight the war on terror, we express our gratitude to our troops whose valor over the last three years provided freedom to the Iraqis, while protecting our liberty here at home."
- Tim Murphy
(Related: Home, War, Gratitude, Fight, Freedom, Liberty, Terror, Troops, Valor, Years)
"Of the Marines on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue."
- Chester W. Nimitz
(Related: Virtue, Marines, Valor)
"The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later."
- Ernie Pyle
(Related: Valor)
"Valor is superior to number."
- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
(Related: Valor)
"Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Valor, World)
"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."
- Carl Sandburg
(Related: Valor, Will)
"Valor is common but great souls are rare."
- Bernard Joseph Saurin
(Related: Valor)
"It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it."
- William H. Seward
(Related: Power, Wealth, Nation, Valor)
"In a false quarrel there is no true valor."
- William Shakespeare
(Related: Quarrel, Valor)
"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
(Related: Valor)
"Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back."
- Publilius Syrus
(Related: Fear, Valor)
"Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards."
- Tacitus
(Related: Chance, Cowards, Rules, Service, Valor)
"America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor."
- Paul Tsongas
(Related: Hope, America, Compassion, Excellence, Valor)
"Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?"
- Virgil
(Related: Strategy, Enemy, Valor)
"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."
- James Wolfe
(Related: Success, Confidence, Enemies, Gain, Valor)