Valor Quotes

• Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Courage

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• 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

  Courage, Men, Skills

  Walter Lord (2012). “Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.

  Carl Sandburg

  Veterans Day, Tests, Thank You Veteran

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• In valor there is hope.

  Tacitus

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Courage

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• Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave

  Elijah Muhammad

  Wise, Memorial Day, Prayer

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• Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.

  Walter Scott

  Inspirational, Motivation, Real

  Walter Scott (1875). “Waverley Novels: Peveril of the Peak”, p.79

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

  Tecumseh

  Death, Song, Hero

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• Tough times test your valor, persistence and ability to make decisions. They force you to fight for your dreams.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Fighting, Persistence

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• Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Courage, Men, Plus

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• Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Horse, Heart, Soul

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.157, Stanford University Press

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• The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Courage, Struggle, Weakness

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• Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Recovery, Power

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.179, Penguin

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• When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

  Tecumseh

  Life, Death, Wisdom

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

  Publilius Syrus

  Memorial Day, Courage, Fear

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 63,

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• Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Courage, Perfect, World

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• Valor is common but great souls are rare.

  Bernard-Joseph Saurin

  Soul, Common, Great Souls

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• True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.

  Josh Billings

  Honesty, Men, Doe

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• Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

  Tecumseh

  Respect, Native American, People

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• Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice.

  Agesilaus II

  Injustice, Virtue, Ifs

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• Against the flying ball no valor avails.

  Martin Luther

  Flying, Balls

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• There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.

  Meister Eckhart

  Fighting, Would Be, Ought

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• Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

  Thomas Browne

  Life, Death, Warrior

  Sir Thomas Browne (1831). “Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings”, p.82

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• 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

  Forgiving, Forgive Yourself, Easy

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• Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Thank You, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

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• True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Lying, Cowardice, Rashness

  "Don Quixote de la Mancha".

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