There is always safety in valor. [ Emerson ]

Discretion, the best part of valor. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

The first mark of valor is defense. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

To revenge is no valor, but to bear. [ William Shakespeare ]

Valor is abased by too much loftiness. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Valor is the contempt of death and pain. [ Tacitus ]

Against the flying ball no valor avails. [ Luther ]

A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion. [ George Herbert ]

In a false quarrel there is no true valor. [ William Shakespeare ]

True valor, friends, on virtue founded strong,
Meets all events alike. [ Mallet ]

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from enemies. [ Plutarch ]

True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does. [ H. W. Shaw ]

I am young, it is true; but in noble souls, valor does not wait for years. [ Corneille ]

Valor is stability, not of arms and of legs, but of courage and the soul. [ Montaigne ]

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

Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor. [ W. R. Alger ]

Fear to do base, unworthy things, is valor; if they be done to us, to suffer them is valor too. [ Ben Jonson ]

Vanity, shame, and, above all, temperament, often make the valor of men, and the virtue of women. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor. [ Hazlitt ]

My valor is certainly going! it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palms of my hands. [ Sheridan ]

There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valor. [ William Shakespeare ]

Fight valiantly today; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor. [ William Shakespeare ]

If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor. [ Jane Porter ]

Valor and power may gain a lasting memory, but where are they when the brave and mighty are departed? Their effects may remain, but they live not in them any more than the fire in the work of the potter. [ Hartley Coleridge ]

Music may be classed into natural, social, sacred, and martial; it is the twin sister of poetry, and like it has the power to sway the feelings and command the mind; in devotion it breathes the pure spirit of inspiration and love; in martial scenes it rouses the soul to fearless deeds of daring and valor, while it alleviates the cares, and enhances the innocent and cheerful enjoyments of domestic life. [ Acton ]