Heroism Quotes

A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.

My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.

Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.

…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.

The great, the fundamental need of any nation, any race, is for heroism, devotion, sacrifice; and there cannot be heroism, devotion, or sacrifice in a primarily skeptical spirit.

Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism.

Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security.

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.

I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.

I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . .

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

There is only one way fit for a man - Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.

True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune.

Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

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

I pay tribute to the endless heroism of youth.

The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.

Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual

The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

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

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

Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.

A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

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

It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!

Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.

We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. Like them, he was slandered and misunderstood.

The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.

Today the economic development of Armenia is as important as victory in the war was yesterday. Our battle has moved from the field of blood and heroism, to the economic field.

Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.

What makes a hero truly great is that they never despair.

Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.

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

Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.