Valiant Quotes

• Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Memorial Day, Gratitude

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Death, Running

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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• Vow to be valiant. Resolve to be radiant. Determine to be dynamic. Strive to be sincere. Aspire to be attuned.

  William Arthur Ward

  Attitude, Sincere, Vow

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• Nothing is impossible to a valiant heart.

  Henry IV of France

  Military, Heart, Impossible

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• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Courage, Strong

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• In times of stress, be bold and valiant.

  Horace

  Courage, Stress, Adversity

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• The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

  Victor Hugo

  Positive, Names, Impossible

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• The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Artist, Creative, Inspire

  Details magazine, 2010.

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• Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Order

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• It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Struggle, Long, Wish

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• Necessity makes dastards valiant men.

  Robert Herrick

  Men

  Robert Herrick (1825). “The poetical works of Robert Herrick”, p.195

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• He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity.

  Philip Massinger

  Suicide, Lying, Bears

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• Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Numbers, Delight

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Motivation, Enough, Knows

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.197, Penguin

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• Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

  William Shakespeare

  Success, Death, Veterans Day

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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• That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Breakfast, Lions

  William Shakespeare, J. M. Jephson (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.454

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• God aids the valiant...both to you and to me He will give the help needed.

  Teresa of Avila

  Giving, Helping, Aids

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• As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Life, Ambition

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [27]

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• Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Fate, Ides Of March

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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• It is not the critic who counts

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Courage, Military, Failure

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Breakfast, Lions, May

  "Henry V". Book by William Shakespeare, Orleans, scene vii, 1599.

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• Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle?

  William Shakespeare

  Grieving, Dust, Wife

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [64]

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• I think no virtue goes with size;The reason of all cowardiceIs, that men are overgrown,And, to be valiant, must come downTo the titmouse dimension.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Men, Size

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Titmouse”

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• To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

  George Crabbe

  Pain, Long, Effort

  George Crabbe (1861). “The Life and Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe”, p.201

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• LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

  William Shakespeare

  Uncles, Husband, Niece

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Deluxe Annotated: Suitable for Home Reading, Academic Study, and Dramatic Productions”, p.856, BookBaby

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