He is a very valiant trencher-man. [ William Shakespeare ]
To the valiant actions speak alone. [ Smollett ]
Assail who will, the valiant attends. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Necessity makes dastards valiant men. [ Robert Herrick ]
To extend one's fame by valiant feats. [ Virgil ]
Necessity can make even cowards valiant. [ J. Hall ]
To make a man valiant, abuse him lustily. [ Proverb ]
To a valiant heart nothing is impossible. [ French Proverb ]
A coward's fear can make a coward valiant. [ Proverb ]
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, Julius Caesar ]
A valiant man's look is more than a coward's sword. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant. [ Proverb ]
The truly valiant dare everything but doing anybody an injury. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]
That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. [ William Shakespeare ]
He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer the worst that man can breathe. [ William Shakespeare ]
A valiant and brave soldier seeks rather to preserve one citizen than to destroy a thousand enemies. [ Scipio ]
True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant, action alone speaks. [ Tobias Smollett ]