valor

...A world is supported by four things...the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.

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.

challenges are everywhere. Awake! challenge and defeat the challenges that challenge you in a challenging way and be not be defeated by the challenges that challenge you in a challenging way

Courage is like magic, courage vanishes crisis.

Be the hero of your children__ story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers.

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the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world may at any time be superseded and decease.

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

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.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.

Deciding denial was the better part of valor, CK pretended nothing was out of the ordinary.

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?

War, not peace, produces virtue. War, not peace, purges vice. War, and preparation for war, call forth all that is noble and honorable in a man. It unites him with his brothers and binds them in selfless love, eradicating in the crucible of necessity all which is base and ignoble. There in the holy mill of murder the meanest of men may seek and find that part of himself, concealed beneath the corrupt, which shines forth brilliant and virtuous, worthy of honor before the gods. Do not despise war, my young friend, nor delude yourself that mercy and compassion are virtues superior to andreia, to manly valor.

valor is sexy.

But think about it. We__e tried for over twenty years to do everything right, to save our money, to pay our bills, to raise our kid, and to live within the law. We__e done everything the right way, at least to the best of our ability._ Rick grabbed her hand. __ut that__ not enough. That guy is right about at least that much. He__ giving us a chance to do something that will lash out, and he__ willing to pay for it. I can see the sincerity all over his face. He__ not trying to con us. He just wants an ally, a foot soldier._ __hy you?_ Renee asked bluntly. __s it that hard to find someone crazy enough to do something that extreme?_ She caught herself and started laughing. __aybe it is.

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

Never on me let such wrath lay hold, as the wrath you cherish, you whose valor causes harm!