Top 100 Valor's Quotes
#1. Mammoth was more controlled than Valor and made a point to keep his attention hinged on Ivo - as if disgusted by Valor's eagerness. "Mammoth, greet the lady properly," Ivo said. To Cinderella's surprise and delight, Mammoth slid forward on his front paws, bowing to her.
K.M. Shea
#2. After Reason had left the dining room, Valor's mouth softened into smile. "Let us know if you have any symptoms."
"Symptoms?" I asked, and jerked my gaze to his eyes. "What kind of symptoms?"
"Tell us if your fingernails turn to stone," Victor chuckled.
Taylor Longford
#3. The tailor put on the girdle, and resolved to go forth into the world, because he thought his workshop was too small for his valor.
Jacob Grimm
#4. Any word with the our ending could be spelt or, don'tchaknow." "Like neighbor instead of neighbour?" "It's a good idea," put in Snell. "Labor, valor, flavor, harbor - there must be hundreds. If we confine it to one geographical area, we can claim it as a local spelling idiosyncrasy.
Jasper Fforde
#5. I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.
William Shakespeare
#6. Patience is the better part of valor. And obedience the better part of humanity. Listen to your elders.
Pierce Brown
#7. If all men were just there would be no need of valor.
Agesilaus II
#8. Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
Walter Bagehot
#9. (Scottish Terriers) have all the compactness of a small dog and all the valor of a big one. And they are so exceedingly sturdy that it is proverbial that the only thing fatal to them is being run over by an automobile - in which case the car itself knows it has been in a fight.
Dorothy Parker
#10. It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.
William Shakespeare
#11. 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
#12. Fess up, 'Hunger Games' fans: Does anyone care about Peeta or find him attractive? He's the Ron Weasley of the series: he gets points for callow valor and sympathy for his run of bad luck, but he remains a pasty, earnest bore.
Richard Corliss
#13. I lied about serving in Vietnam, and I'm sorry. I did not mean to take away from the actions and the sacrifices of the ones who did really serve there ... I did steal valor. That was very wrong of me. There is no real excuse for that.
Brian Dennehy
#14. True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.
David Mallet
#15. Your love
Should never be offered to the mouth of a
Stranger,
Only to someone
Who has the valor and daring
To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife
Then weave them into a blanket
To protect you.
Hafez
#16. 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.
Thomas Paine
#17. Nhb stared at the blade reverently. Here was a token of past victories and the valor of long dead people. "With this I can fulfill my duty to my people and defeat the Shadow," Nhb thought.
Rachel Wetsriru
#18. It was by a Maryland colonel in the year 1777 that the British received, in the gallant defense of an important fort, one of the first lessons of what they were to expect from American valor and patriotism.
Marquis De Lafayette
#19. you speak of true honor, it is to be born of God; if of true valor, it is to fight the good fight of faith; if of true delight, it is to have joy in the Holy Spirit. Oh, then, espouse godliness! Here reality is to be had. Of other things we may say, "They comfort in vain!" (Zech. 10:2)
Thomas Watson
#22. It is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#23. Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.
Plutarch
#24. Valor is the soldier's adornment.
Livy
#25. I am bravery. I am courage. I am valor. I am daring. I am holding a thesaurus.
Demetri Martin
#27. he carried out these traits until the very end, even when he knew the war was unwinnable. And that's about all any of us can really hope for, to die with our dignity, to die with honor and valor.
Pittacus Lore
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. I am no infant!" Valor growled. Why did they insist on treating him as if he were ill or fatally wounded? He was merely fatigued from a long night's ride and strenuous battle.
"Your behaviour would prove otherwise, milord.
Marcia Lynn McClure
#31. Valor in the leader is often an expression of the leader's character, fortitude, grace, vulnerability, openness, and honesty.
Catherine Robinson-Walker
#32. His strength, his speed, his valor, all his hard-won skill . . . it was worth less than a mummer's fart, because he flinched from killing.
George R R Martin
#33. I never cut my neighbor's throat;
My neighbor's gold I never stole;
I never spoiled his house and land;
But God have mercy on my soul!
For I am haunted night and day
By all the deeds I have not done;
O unattempted loveliness!
O costly valor never won!
Marguerite Wilkinson
#34. Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.
W.S. Gilbert
#35. It is war's prize to take all vantages;
And ten to one is no impeach of valor.
William Shakespeare
#36. Sometimes lying was the better part of valor and the only way to save a man's butt.
Christine Feehan
#37. And that's about all any of us can really hope for, to die with our dignity, to die with honor and valor. To die knowing we did everything we could.
Pittacus Lore
#38. I've done routes where I've climbed 200 feet off the ground and just been, like, 'What am I doing?' I then just climbed back down and went home. Discretion is the better part of valor. Some days are just not your day. That's the big thing with free soloing: when to call it.
Alex Honnold
#39. Kira had a warrior's spirit inside her sleek, feminine frame, for true valor was best revealed when defeat was inevitable.
Jeaniene Frost
#40. What valor 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?
William Shakespeare
#41. To seek is to show valor. To endure is to show strength. To believe all will arise in a time of perfection. There shows trust and faith in you.
Tania Elizabeth
#42. Throughout America today, we honor the dead of our wars. We recall their valor and their sacrifices. We remember they gave their lives so that others might live.
Ronald Reagan
#43. A man of your valor deserves not another breath.
Craig R. Key
#44. Fight valiantly to-day; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor.
William Shakespeare
#45. America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.
Paul Tsongas
#46. The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#47. A coward's heart is no prize, but the man of valor deserves his shining helmet.
Maggie Stiefvater
#48. Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity.
Ovid
#50. [General-in-Chief of the army, Lieutenant General Winfield] Scott not only believed that the idea [for a battlefield decoration, to wit, a Medal of Honor, or valor] smacked of Old World vanity, elitism, and snobbery, he also thought that such an award was entirely unnecessary.
Russell S. Bonds
#51. True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.
Pierre Corneille
#52. 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
#53. Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
Tacitus
#54. Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
William Hazlitt
#55. Virgil put it with Roman bluntness and economy. Dolus an virtus, quis in hoste requirat? cried Aeneas's comrade as they fought their way out of burning Troy disguised in Greek armor; which may be loosely translated: It won't matter to the enemy whether you beat him by guile or by valor.
Thaddeus Holt
#56. 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
#57. We can cherish nothing less than our random understanding of death and the earth-shaking love that draws us to one another ... Cleanliness and valor will be our watchwords. Nothing less will get us past the armed sentry and over the mountainous border.
John Cheever
#58. A noble and resolute people can safely tread a dark and fearsome path if they always shine before them the lamps of wisdom and valor.
Aleksandra Layland
#59. As always, there was an all-American war hero look to him, coded in his tousled brown hair, his summer-narrowed hazel eyes, the straight nose that ancient Anglo-Saxons had graciously passed on to him. Everything about him suggested valor and power and a firm handshake.
Maggie Stiefvater
#60. 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
#61. A woman only loses herself when she stops looking, that no role is too confining or too grand for a woman of valor.
Rachel Held Evans
#62. Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.
Philip Sidney
#63. Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness, even in the midst of miseries.
Philip Sidney
#64. 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.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#65. That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man.
Herman Melville
#66. 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
#67. Now he'll outstare the lighting. To be furious
Is to be frightened out of fear, and in that mood
The dove will peck the estridge; and I see still
A diminution in our captain's brain
Restores his heart. When valor preys on reason,
It eats the sword it fights with.
William Shakespeare
#68. 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
#69. It's very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words 'heroes.' I feel ... uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war.
Chris Hayes
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.
Christopher Hart
#73. This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affectations glow and valor is reborn, when the shadows deepen along the edge of the forest and we believe that, if we watch carefully, at any moment we may see the unicorn.
Bernard DeVoto
#74. 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
#75. Our towers aren't fair and lovely they're valor and honor that's what good is.
Soman Chainani
#76. Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast.
Silius Italicus
#77. West Virginia is among the nation's leaders in military service, in killed in action, in medals for valor.
Rick Bragg
#78. Every one needs to talk to some one," the woman said. "Before we had religion and other nonsense. Now for every one there should be some one to whom one can speak frankly, for all the valor that one could have one becomes very alone.
Ernest Hemingway,
#79. But the Achaian men went silently, breathing valor, stubbornly minded each in his heart to stand by the others.
Homer
#80. To kill the enemy is valorous. To condemn him to torment is infamous. To condemn him to eternal torment is eternal infamy.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#82. I am a bastard, too. I love bastards! I am bastard begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard in valor, in everything illegitimate.
William Shakespeare
#83. 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
#84. The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage.
Tullian Tchividjian
#86. By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
Chester W. Nimitz
#88. It often occurs to me that if, against all odds, there is a judgmental God and heaven, it will come to pass that when the pearly gates open, those who had the valor to think for themselves will be escorted to the head of the line, garlanded, and given their own personal audience.
Edward O. Wilson
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. In valor there is hope.
Tacitus
#92. All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.
Horace
#93. 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
#94. To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
Berthold Auerbach
#95. We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#96. Time no longer mattered. He knew he would have plenty of it at his disposal. The sight of the star filled him with indescribable longing.
J. Valor
#97. There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valor.
William Shakespeare
#98. Valor was in Nikodemos, unquestionable, and commitment like trees to stand or night to fall.
Janet Morris
#99. It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#100. You politicians make me sick with your heroics!
How to die with valor. How to die with dignity.
When you should be learning: how to live like a human being.
Nathan Toulane
