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  • The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

    Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик
  • Some nights, valor and cold purpose aren't enough.

  • Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor in time of war.

    Peace   War   World  
  • You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. ... For the past four decades the world behind the Iron Curtain ... looked to Americans for hope, and America looked to you to get the job done. Today, the free world says thank you.

    Jobs   Wall   War  
  • If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read.

    Wall   War   Taken  
    Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.178, Xist Publishing
  • If life is a battle, then my inner scars are medals for valor, for swiftness, for courage, for passion. Evil is the dark-haired brother of Good; they walk hand in hand—always.

    Brother   Passion   Dark  
  • There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned

    Henry Timrod (1873). “The Poems of Henry Timrod”, p.210
  • True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.

    Honesty   Men   Doe  
  • When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.

  • Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.

  • Although extraordinary valor was displayed by the entire corps of Spartans and Thespians, yet bravest of all was declared the Spartan Dienekes. It is said that on the eve of battle, he was told by a native of Trachis that the Persian archers were so numerous that, their arrows would block out the sun. Dienekes, however, undaunted by this prospect, remarked with a laugh, 'Good. Then we will fight in the shade.

    Block   Archer   Fighting  
  • Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.

    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
  • Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

    Fall   Hands   Coward  
  • Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.

    Stars   Careers   Valor  
  • Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

    Death   Song   Hero  
    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
  • Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.

    William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1902). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics”
  • The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the mortal danger, the external foe, the climactic battle whose outcome resolves all--all designed to appear heroic, to excite and gratify and audience. Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality--there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand?Here is the truth--actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.

    "The Pale King". Book by David Foster Wallace, 2011.
  • The Proverbs 31 woman is a star not because of what she does but how she does it—with valor. So do your thing. If it’s refurbishing old furniture—do it with valor. If it’s keeping up with your two-year-old—do it with valor. If it’s fighting against human trafficking . . . leading a company . . . or getting other people to do your work for you—do it with valor. Take risks. Work hard. Make mistakes. Get up the next morning. And surround yourself with people who will cheer you on.

    Morning   Stars   Cheer  
    Rachel Held Evans (2012). “A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'”, p.95, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.

    Land   Share   Vain  
    John Milton (1873). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory, an Index to the Subjects of Paradise Lost, and a Verbal Index to All the Poems”, p.482
  • War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.

    Military   War   Race  
    Walter Bagehot (1999). “Physics and Politics, Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, Ivan R Dee
  • Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

    Courage   Men   Skills  
    Walter Lord (2012). “Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway”, p.6, Open Road Media
  • Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

  • The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

    "The Plays and Poems of Shakspeare".
  • Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

  • Maybe he hadn't thought the war through. It had seemed like simple fun when he had first pictured it, with a glorious beginning, a difficult but valor-filled middle, and a victorious end. He hadn't accounted for the fact that there might not be much of a resolution to the battle, and he hadn't imagined what it would feel like when the war just sort of ended, without anyone admitting defeat and congratulating him for his bravery.

    Fun   War   Simple  
    Dave Eggers (2009). “The Wild Things”, p.208, Vintage
  • If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

    John Milton (1785). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton. A New Edition. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, ...”, p.92
  • Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
  • We cherish too, the Poppy red That grows on fields where valor led, It seems to signal to the skies That blood of heroes never dies.

  • Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people's too; our fear lets us practice valor; we are tense, and tender as well. And among the things we can no longer afford are things we never really wanted anyway.

    Pain   Fear   Practice  
  • America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

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