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Quotes about Valor

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
- Andrew Jackson
It is better to die well than to live badly.
- Jan Hus
He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
- Pierre Corneille
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
- Joseph Campbell
I think it's criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they're paid.
- Ben Stein
Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
- Publilius Syrus
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. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth; and his alert acceptance of it, from whatever quarter; the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world may at any time be superseded and decease.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boy on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country .
- Joseph Heller
A hero is brave in deeds as well as words.
- Aesop
If she was going to be brave, then be brave.
- Rachel Hauck
There is always safety in valor
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness.
- Henry David Thoreau