Valor Quotes

“Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Steelheart

“It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

“Discretion is the better part of valor.”
― William Shakespeare

“Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated.”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

“I said, 'I have heard people talk about war as if it was a very fine thing.'

Ah!' said [Captain], 'I should think they never saw it. No doubt it is very fine when there is no enemy, when it is just exercise and parade, and sham-fight. Yes, it is very fine then; but when thousands of good brave men and horses are killed, or crippled for life, it has a very different look.'
Do you know what they fought about?' said I.
No,' he said, 'that is more than a horse can understand, but the enemy must have been awfully wicked people, if it was right to go all that way over the sea on purpose to kill them.”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

“How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

“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, Des Cannibales

“... as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.”
― Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I

“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the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world may at any time be superseded and decease.”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

“Casi el único valor de las grandes obras maestras del ingenio humano consiste en haber provocado un libro de crítica o de comentario.”
― Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

“Valor is rejuvenation through resilience.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science

“Cuanto más difícil resulta algo, más valor se le da, esta era la lección de Clive.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“The people who believe that ethics, morals, and values are the product of a by-gone era are the very people for which that by-gone era existed.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Vê o que criaste
E quem ajudaste
Pensa nos que amas,
No quanto lhes dás

Não tens de ir longe
Nem mudar o mundo
Podes fazer muito
No muro onde estás”
― Débora Henriques, O musgo Tobias

“La voluntad de valor, [es] un valor que está fuera del individuo y que apela a la persona como un deber ante el cual se hace responsable.”
― Nuria Chinchilla Albiol

“La vida no es más que un momento. Todo lo que importa es para que usas ese momento.

- La Sombra de Ender”
― Orson Scott Card

“Scars are not guilt marks,
Scars are mark of gallantry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“La noche trae luz,
La herida trae elixir.
La tormenta ofrece valentía,
Las nubes crean carácter.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“We can die as valiant as rainbows,
and hold light in our lucid bodies like blood.”
― Richard Blanco, How to Love a Country

“Nadie que huye es inocente,
Nadie que decide no intentarlo merece una recompensa,
Pero es que ni todo lo que se consigue, cuando uno lo intenta es justo.
_ni recnunciar es un fracaso_”
― Elvira Sastre, Las vulnerabilidades

“Custaria mas muito caro fosse
não saber o valor da natureza,
da sua rica essência e beleza
das pessoas e da natureza em si.

O olhar refinado naquilo que aprendeu.
Uma vez que caia em si mesmo...
Poderá já ser tarde buscar a esmo
voltar no tempo e valorizar o que perdeu.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Mulher: verbo intransitivo

“Esto es lo que haréis, amigos. Olvidad el país. Olvidad al rey. Olvidad la esposa, los hijos y la libertad. Olvidad todos los conceptos, por nobles que sean, por los que imagináis que peleáis hoy aquí. Actuad sólo por esto: por el hombre que está junto a vosotros. Él lo es todo, y todo está contenido dentro de él.”
― Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire

“... todo es inútil por sí mismo. Nada tiene valor a menos que nosotros se lo concedamos. Todo objeto puede valer lo que sea que decidamos que vale.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“Scars are not guilt marks,
Scars are mark of gallantry.
Scars are proof of resilience,
Scars are testament to bravery.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Eres el colmo del poder humano,
Eres la luz, eres la marea.
Eres peligro, eres el milagro,
Eres el cosmos en una cometa.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Abigitano: El Divino Refugiado

“Himalayan Sonneteer Sonnet 3

What is the role of an electrical fuse?
Amateurs will say, conducting electricity.
But the actual task of a fuse is,
To blow itself when the load is too heavy.

Thus the fuse protects the appliance,
Against any electrical irregularity.
Likewise, we gotta blow our fuse,
Whenever inhumanity hangs heavy.

If we stay silent in indifference,
What's the point of all this electricity!
Nerves that carry not vigor but ice water,
Ain't no human nerves but sewers of society.

Human nerves are the life-circuit of society.
If they carry ice water, it is a catastrophe.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Within wounds there is valor.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Defend thee from that deadly malice, dear Beowulf, best of knights, and choose for thyself the better part, counsels of everlasting worth; countenance no pride, O champion in thy renown! Now for a little while thy valor is in flower; but soon shall it be that sickness or the sword rob thee of thy might, or fire's embrace, or water's wave, or bite of blade, or flight of spear, or dreadful age; or the flashing of thine eyes shall fail and fade; very soon 'twill come that thee, proud knight, shall death lay low.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell

“His heart turned not to water within him, nor did the weapon his sire bequeathed betray him in the fight. And that indeed the serpent found when they came together.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell

“When they did finally come. the medals dramatically underscored the Nisei soldiers' disproportionate valor during the war. Of the roughly 16 million Americans who served in World War II, only 473 have received Medals of Honor. But 21 of those medal recipients came from the ranks of the 18,000 men who ultimately served in the 442nd. So in the end, the 442nd, representing just over 0.11 percent of the U.S. military force, earned 4.4 percent of the
Medals of Honor.”
― Daniel James Brown, Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II