These valor quotes will inspire you. Valor, the strength of mind or spirit that enables a person to encounter danger with firmness or great courage in the face of danger, especially in battle.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging valor quotes, valor sayings, and valor proverbs.
Best Valor Quotes
- “Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
- “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
- “Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.” ~ Carl Sandburg
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“In valor there is hope.” ~ Tacitus
- “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
- “Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.” ~ Walter Scott
- “Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.” ~ Tecumseh
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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
- “Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.” ~ William Rounseville Alger
- “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
- “The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.” ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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“Valor consists in the power of self recovery.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “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
- “Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.” ~ Publilius Syrus
- “Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.” ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Valor is common but great souls are rare.” ~ Bernard-Joseph Saurin
- “True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.” ~ Josh Billings
- “Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.” ~ Tecumseh
- “Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice.” ~ Agesilaus II
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“Against the flying ball no valor avails.” ~ Martin Luther
- “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
- “Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.” ~ Thomas Browne
- “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
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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
- “True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.” ~ Miguel de Cervantes
- “In a false quarrel there is no true valor.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “There is always safety in valor.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.” ~ Tecumseh
- “America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.” ~ Paul Tsongas
- “The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen’s valor only to break out again later.” ~ Ernie Pyle
- “A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion.” ~ George Herbert , Bravery valor quotes
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“Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?” ~ Virgil
- “Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.” ~ Walter Bagehot , Military valor quotes
- “When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.” ~ Tecumseh
- “Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.” ~ Tecumseh
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“When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.” ~ Tecumseh
- “Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.” ~ Tecumseh
- “The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.” ~ Plutarch
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“Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.” ~ Tacitus
- “There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man’s commendation with woman than report of valor.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “I love the man that is modestly valiant; that stirs not till he most needs, and then to purpose. A continued patience I commend not.” ~ Owen Felltham
- “So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.” ~ Tecumseh
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“For souls nobly born, valor doesn’t await the passing of years” ~ Pierre Corneille
- “In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.” ~ John Milton
- “The truly valiant dare everything but doing anybody an injury.” ~ Philip Sidney
- “Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.” ~ Tecumseh
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“Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.” ~ Tecumseh
- “The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.” ~ Barbara Tuchman
- “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 unseasoned without it.” ~ Ben Jonson
- “My valour is certainly going! – it is sneaking off! – I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!” ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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“What valor 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
- “Valor is the contempt of death and pain.” ~ Tacitus
- “Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.” ~ Pierre Corneille
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“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
- “Then what difference does human striving make: mortal struggle, valor, pain? If you live, then live for the test of spirit, for the celebration of the heart. Live to fight on other days. Lose your beloveds one by one. And remember. Exalt the kiss of friend and horse and wind and sun, which venality cannot cheapen nor stupidity belittle.” ~ Janet Morris
- “Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.” ~ Tecumseh
- “Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.” ~ Tecumseh
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“Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend; and thus from good they gradually decline to evil, and from evil again return to good. The reason is, that valor produces peace; peace, repose; repose, disorder; disorder, ruin; so from disorder order springs; from order virtue, and from this, glory and good fortune.” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
- “Valor is superior to number.” ~ Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
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“Valor is abased by too much loftiness.” ~ Philip Sidney
- “If all men were just there would be no need of valor.” ~ Agesilaus II
- “Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
