Top 44 Quotes About Valor And Courage
#1. Today, valor and courage are hard to find. People are fickle, angry, resentful and selfish. It stops them from having courage and fighting for something larger than oneself.
C. Gockel
#2. 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
#4. No one had made me feel this way, and no one ever would.
Meredith Wild
#5. Forgiveness is the best part of valor ... Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#6. Their length could not be measured in years, just as an ocean could not explain the distance we have traveled, just as the dead can never be counted.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#8. Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#9. Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#11. I thought I had escaped the monsters, that I'd left them locked up behind an electric fence. But the shadows were alive, and they had chased me here.
Alexandra Bracken
#14. Mad fearlessness is not courage. The only requirement for courage is a good heart.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#15. The key to peace within my soul, he said, was to cast aside my bitterness and resentment.
Wally Lamb
#16. Love of self comes first. The one who loves everybody is the one who does not love anyone.
Elijah Muhammad
#17. Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Ambrose Bierce
#18. Ash's jaw flexed at the mention of Bjorn. "Forgiveness is the better part of valor."
"I always thought it was 'discretion.'"
Ash shook his head. "Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#19. 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.
Walter Lord
#20. 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.
John F. Kennedy
#21. What is courage without risk ... It wouldn't really be courage, would it?
Jocelyn Murray
#22. Tranquillity is courage in repose. It is a statical manifestation of valor, as daring deeds are a dynamical. A truly brave man is ever serene; he is never taken by surprise; nothing ruffles the equanimity of his spirit.
Inazo Nitobe
#23. You read yourself full, you pray yourself hot, and then you turn yourself loose.
Timothy B. Tyson
#25. If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor.
Jane Porter
#26. Be the hero of your children's story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers.
Shannon L. Alder
#27. Writing, in its noblest function, is the attempt to unerase, to unearth, to find the primitive picture again, ours, the one that frightens us.
Helene Cixous
#28. 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.
Storm Constantine
#29. Mathematics is the second most exciting thing.
Clayton Joyce
#30. Hope never stands alone," he said in a dry, husky voice. "It is born of valor and perseverance. It rides the back of courage.
D. Barkley Briggs
#31. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#32. There is no magic herb that makes a brave man. Courage is knowing that what you do is necessary. Don't doubt yourself, Shadow. There is more valor in your heart than you realize.
Elizabeth Alder
#33. In valor there is hope.
Tacitus
#34. Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus.
Peter McWilliams
#35. Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
Virgil
#36. The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage.
Tullian Tchividjian
#37. Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#38. I am bravery. I am courage. I am valor. I am daring. I am holding a thesaurus.
Demetri Martin
#39. Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.
Plutarch
#40. I'm a runner. Not a race runner, but I just love to run, and I don't think I've ever tasted such amazing food like I've tasted in the whole entire New York.
Adan Canto
#43. It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.
William Shakespeare
#44. You must understand that this war is not against Hitler or National Socialism, but against the strength of the German people, which is to be smashed once and for all, regardless of whether it is in the hands of Hitler or a Jesuit priest.
Winston Churchill