“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
“The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life”
“Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?”
Virgil
“You are the hare of whom the proverb goes, Whose valor plucks dead lions by the beard”
“Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.”
William Orville Douglas
“Valor consists in the power of self recovery.”
Contributed by: Maria Green
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valor, but to bear”