Valor

Valor is courage, with determination.

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• 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.

• 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.

See also

• Bravery
• Courage