Heroism Quotes

History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?

The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.

To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism.

In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.

The hero is suffered to be himself.

Routine is the death to heroism.

Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.

Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never recriminate.

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing to do than die!

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?

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.

Regarding heroism, I grew up in a culture where you learn about heroes and heroines all the time. In a way, when you call someone a hero or heroine, it's the same as calling them a villain.

If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.

There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.

... many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

Heroism is a matter of integrity--beco ming more and more at each step ourselves.

Our country doesn't depend on the heroism of every citizen. But all of us should be worthy of the sacrifices made on our behalf.

All peace-loving women shut up when they sense they have stepped onto Guy Turf. Guy Turf is a murky realm of ego and pride and chivalry and testosterone and heroism.

I don't know the fitness that Donald Trump possesses to be commenting on other people's heroism. The most lethal foe that he is ever faced in his own life, I think was Rosie O'Donnell.

Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all around us.

By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism

One part brave, three parts fool!

This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.

Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.

Stamping down the weakness of mind and heart, stand up, saying, "I am possessed of heroism, I am possessed of a steady intellect..." Never allow weakness to overtake your mind.

The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life.

The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.

Heroism is about taking an action which represents a breakthrough, and then assuming full responsiblity for it, even if it's a failure.

Don't blame yourself, or worry. Neither does a bit of good.

It's thematic in my career, if you look at most of my choices. It is some level of exploration of maternal angst and maternal heroism.

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields.

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

Heroism is the antidote to evil.

Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal?

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. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.

Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves.

In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that.

September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.

Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die.

The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.