Valour Quotes

“It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.”
― Arthur G. Lewis, Stub Ends of Thought and Verse

“Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.”
― David Gemmell, Shield of Thunder

“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

“That defense alone is effectual, sure and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valour.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

“Courage is like magic, courage vanishes crisis.”
― Amit Kalantri

“I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Perfect valour is to do without witnesses what
one would do before all the world.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

“But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort of getting out of bed to become a tourist, or even a traveller. I don't have the slightest wish to be intrepid. I don't want to prove myself to myself or anyone else. I don't care if no one thinks me brave or hardy. I have no concern at all that I did not have whatever it is I should have had to take a dive out of a plane or off a building. None of that matters to me in the least.”
― Jenny Diski, On Trying to Keep Still

“Winning cannot become your habit unless defeats have torn you apart
and you sit in the battle field
stitching back yourself
one piece at a time
laughing in the faces of all defeats.”
― Chetan M. Kumbhar, Panasu The Golden City & The Capasstars

“We are limited by knowledge, not by courage.”
― Amit Kalantri

“To kill the enemy is valorous. To condemn him to torment is infamous. To condemn him to eternal torment is eternal infamy.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, The Last Watch

“Love Is An Act Of Valour.”
― Amit Abraham

“To seek is to show valor. To endure is to show strength. To believe all will arise in a time of perfection. There shows trust and faith in you.”
― Tania Elizabeth, The Tier of Eternal Grace: The Souls Cry

“For each man his day stands fixed. For all mankind the days of life are few, and not to be restored. But to prolong fame by deeds, that is valour's task. (Hercules to Pallas)”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“I am not a Damsel In Distress who needs a Prince Charming. I am more of Rani Laxmi Bai who rides a Sturdy Horse.”
― Nikita Dudani

“True Valour would do all that, when alone, that it could do, if all the World were by.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“I have seen elsewhere houses in ruins, and statues both of gods and men: these are men still. 'Tis all true; and yet, for all that, I cannot so often revisit the tomb of that so great and so puissant city,—[Rome]— that I do not admire and reverence it. The care of the dead is recommended to us; now, I have been bred up from my infancy with these dead; I had knowledge of the affairs of Rome long before I had any of those of my own house; I knew the Capitol and its plan before I knew the Louvre, and the Tiber before I knew the Seine.....
.... Finding myself of no use to this age, I throw myself back upon that other, and am so enamoured of it, that the free, just, and flourishing state of that ancient Rome (for I neither love it in its birth nor its old age) interests and impassionates me; and therefore I cannot so often revisit the sites of their streets and houses, and those ruins profound even to the Antipodes, that I am not interested in them. Is it by nature, or through error of fancy, that the sight of places which we know to have been frequented and inhabited by persons whose memories are recommended in story, moves us in some sort more than to hear a recital of their—acts or to read their writings? It pleases me to consider their face, bearing, and vestments: I pronounce those great names betwixt my teeth, and make them ring in my ears: Of things that are in some part great and admirable, I admire even the common parts: I could wish to see them in familiar relations, walk, and sup. It were ingratitude to contemn the relics and images of so many worthy and valiant men as I have seen live and die, and who, by their example, give us so many good instructions, knew we how to follow them.
And, moreover, this very Rome that we now see, deserves to be beloved.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“Can you not see that we still might win? We lost a battle, not a war.”
― Karen Essex, Pharaoh

“Did Ahalya know it would turn out like this? Rama has asked for my chastity test. Isn’t death better than this? Isn’t leaving me to my fate better? Why humiliate me like this? Why wage such a war if this is how I was going to be treated?
War is for demonstrating the valour of men. Rama has proved his heroism. He is awaiting the demonstration of his wife’s chastity. Isn’t this what Ahalya called distrust?
Wouldn’t accepting her in trust or rejecting her in distrust be better? What should be done now? Sita’s heart was like a volcano.”
― Volga, The Liberation of Sita

“He wrote about the five nobles who had returned to fight a thousand enemy soldiers. He, himself, had cut down one of them, “a young prince, even on the battlefield, his face showed the first blush of love … But there is no room for the lament. This is a warring land - the entire country, forever at war, its wealth strewn around for whoever is strong enough to grab it. Isn’t that why I too am here?”
― Mukta Singh-Zocchi, The Thugs & a Courtesan

“Never forget what we were made for, and that valour can be contained in the most fragile of vessels. Service can be rendered by all.”
― Guy Haley, Only Blood

“Valor and virtue can’t be bound by no graveyard.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work