Valor

Valor is courage, with determination.

Quotes

 * It is a brave act of valour to contemne death, but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live.
 * Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici (1642), Part XLIV, p. 93.


 * Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Circles.


 * ...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, "Remarks at the White House to Members of the American Legion (70)," March 1, 1962, Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 1962.


 * All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave.
 * Edward Bulwer-Lytton, King Arthur (1848-9), Book XII, Chapter XXVIII.


 * When valour preys on reason, It eats the sword it fights with.
 * William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act III, scene 3, line 199.


 * What valour 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, Henry VI, Part III (c. 1591), Act I, scene 4, line 56.


 * You are the hare of whom the proverb goes, Whose valor plucks dead lions by the beard.
 * William Shakespeare, King John (1598), Act II, scene 1, line 137.


 * 'Tis much he dares; And, to that dauntless temper of his mind, He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour To act in safety.
 * William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act III, scene 1, line 51.


 * He's truly valiant that can suffer wisely The worst that man can breathe and make his wrongs His outsides, to wear them like his raiment, carelessly; And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart. To bring it into danger.
 * William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens (published 1623), Act III, scene 5, line 31.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

 * Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 829.


 * There is always safety in valor.
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits, The Times.


 * Valor consists in the power of self-recovery.
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Circles.


 * A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t' his other virtues, They're all unseason'd without it.
 * Ben Jonson, New Inn, Act IV, scene 3.


 * Stimulos dedit æmula virtus.
 * He was spurred on by rival valor.
 * Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia, I. 120.


 * In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.
 * John Milton, Sonnet, To the Lord General Fairfax.


 * My valor is certainly going!—it is sneaking off!—I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palms of my hands.
 * Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals (1775), Act V, scene 3.


 * Exigui numero, sed bello vivida virtus.
 * Of small number, but their valour quick for war.
 * Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), V. 754.