Valor Quotes

“There is always safety in valor.”

“Stimulos dedit æmula virtus.”

“Exigui numero, sed bello vivida virtus.”

“Valor consists in the power of self-recovery.”

“All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave.”

“When valour preys on reason,
It eats the sword it fights with.”

“In vain doth valour bleed,
While Avarice and Rapine share the land.”

“You are the hare of whom the proverb goes,
Whose valor plucks dead lions by the beard.”

“My valor is certainly going!—it is sneaking off!—I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palms of my hands.”

“'Tis much he dares;
And, to that dauntless temper of his mind,
He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour
To act in safety.”

“What valour were it, when a cur doth grin,
For one to thrust his hand between his teeth,
When he might spurn him with his foot, away?”

“It is a brave act of valour to contemne death, but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live.”

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“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.”

“A valiant man
Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger,
But worthily, and by selected ways,
He undertakes with reason, not by chance.
His valor is the salt t' his other virtues,
They're all unseason'd without it.”

“...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.”

“He's truly valiant that can suffer wisely
The worst that man can breathe and make his wrongs
His outsides, to wear them like his raiment, carelessly;
And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart.
To bring it into danger.”