Valor

Valor is courage, with determination.

• 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.

• Bravery
• Courage