Quotes: Valor

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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Miguel De Cervantes

Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616)

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

Irish-British politician, playwright and writer (1751-1816)

Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.

James Wolfe

British Army officer (1727-1759)

It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.

William H. Seward

American lawyer and politician (1801-1872)

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

Paul Tsongas

American politician (1941-1997)

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

Michel de Montaigne

French author, philosopher, and statesman (1533-1592)

Of the Marines on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

Chester W. Nimitz

United States Navy fleet admiral (1885-1966)

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

Virgil

True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn’t await the passing of years.

Pierre Corneille

French tragedian (1606-1684)

The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.

Bill Frist

American physician, businessman, and politician

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