Heroism Quotes

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherw...

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat T...

In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.'...

Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it u...

Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots ...

Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matt...

In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I want...

We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic pis...

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures th...

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures th...

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - fo...

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. B...

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the hum...

The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, ...

It may not feel too classy, begging just to eat But you know who does that?Lassie, and she always ge...

That summer, Titanic fever gripped Kabul. People smuggled pirated copies of the film from Pakistan- ...

Rostov kept thinking about that brilliant feat of his, which, to his surprise, had gained him the St...

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantmen...

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- tha...

But the days of true heroism are over, when a citizen fought for his country like a Fabricius or a W...

For what are in reality the things we call ‘Wisdom,’ ‘Virtue,’ ‘Heroism,’ ‘sublime hours,’ and ‘grea...

Of what avail are my loftiest thoughts if I have ceased to exist?” there are some will ask; to whom ...

I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can....

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories abo...

Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being her...

Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fea...

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer.

Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.

I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfec...

But one must remember that they were all men with systems. Freud, monumentally hipped on sex (for wh...

I was not always that way, but perhaps the shadow Earth, where I spent so many years, mellowed me a ...

A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.

When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, E...

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

Why had he committed this terrible sin? Everything in the world was insignificant compared to what h...

The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and se...

This thing of being a hero about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religi...

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or th...

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patr...

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of brav...

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of brav...

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whate...

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes

After September 11th, I never much liked the trend of everyone and his brother wearing the hats and ...

By the way, don't 'weep inwardly' and get a sore throat. If you must weep, weep: a good honest howl!...

I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste.

And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people.

From this Legionary school a new man will have to emerge, a man with heroic qualities; a giant of ou...

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one d...

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it...

An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - m...

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of...

Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men befor...

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

War is hell, but sometimes in the midst of that hell men do things that heaven itself must be proud ...

Martyrdom - the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuc...

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

Don't be so humble. You're not that great.

Deeds of heroism are wrought here more than those of romance, when, defying torture, and braving dea...

When the heroes go off the stage the clowns come on.

No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than for a quart of blood, but that is ...