(32 quotes found)
“The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life”
William Shakespeare
“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”
“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.”
“You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valor, but to bear”
“If all the world were just, there would be no need of valor”
Plutarch
“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.”
Walter Bagehot
“Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.”
William Orville Douglas
“Valor that parleys is near yielding.”
George Herbert
“Valor consists in the power of self recovery.”
Contributed by: Maria Green
Ralph Waldo Emerson
