#valor

What is courage without risk... It wouldn’t really be courage, would it? ↗

— Jocelyn Murray

#determination #fear #risk #valor #courage

Ancient politicians talked incessantly about morality and virtue; our politicians talk only about business and money. One will tell you that in a particular country a man is worth the sum he could be sold for in Algiers; another, by following this calculation, will find countries where a man is worth nothing, and others where he is worth less than nothing. They assess men like herds of livestock. According to them, a man has no value to the State apart from what he consumes in it. Thus one Sybarite would have been worth at least thirty Lacedaemonians. Would someone therefore hazard a guess which of these two republics, Sparta or Sybaris, was overthrown by a handful of peasants and which one made Asia tremble? ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

— Pierre Corneille

#await #born #i #i am #nobly

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

— Virgil

#defeated #enemy #strategy #valor #whether

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

— Paul Tsongas

#compassion #excellence #hope #valor

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

— Michel de Montaigne

#courage #legs #soul #stability #valor

As we continue to fight the war on terror, we express our gratitude to our troops whose valor over the last three years provided freedom to the Iraqis, while protecting our liberty here at home. ↗

— Tim Murphy

#express #fight #freedom #gratitude #here

Uncommon valor was a common virtue. ↗

— Chester W. Nimitz

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Valor is superior to number. ↗

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

#superior #valor

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. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#gift #having #know #never #next