#valor

In a false quarrel there is no true valor. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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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

#feel #going #hands #i #i feel

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards. ↗

— Tacitus

#chance #cowards #fall #hands #often

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#cowardice #halfway #just #lies #rashness

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

#big #big ones #break #closest #died

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. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth; and his alert acceptance of it, from whatever quarter; the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world may at any time be superseded and decease. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#harry-dresden #paraphrased #valor #harry-dresden

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#conquest #hard #impact #meanness #military

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#cowardice #lies #rashness #true #valor