Heroism Quotes

The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.

You picked the right road, even though it is the most difficult. That is the essence of heroism. (p. 326)

For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example and precept can still be drawn.

A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a record of their purported heroism.

I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.

I think heroism comes in different packages. The superhero package is one that we're familiar with.

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times.

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

Mostly the subject of the photograph, which can be anyone really, coming down the street - someone that has no idea. "Heroism" in photography, just like in a novel, is for everyone.

There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.

The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our future field.

Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death.

Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.

Heroism is not to be won at the point of a pen.

Heroism isn't a one time thing: Live Heroically.

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

Is society debasing the idea of heroism by using it to describe anyone who makes people feel good about themselves?

It is in the book of man, not the book of god, that we must look for examples of heroism, love, pity, justice, truth, honor, humanity.

Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.

A hero is someone who stands in the community and speaks their hopes and speaks their passion. That's almost an act of heroism nowadays because higher consciousness is so trivialized.

A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.

I wouldn't characterize anybody who fought in Vietnam as a war hero. In 23 bombing sorties, there must have been civilians that were killed and there's no heroism to that.

The woman who led [downed airmen] was named Andrée De Jongh and her story - one of heroism and peril and astounding courage - became the inspiration for my novel.

PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they can and will make the world a better place.

Librarianship is a form of heroism. It’s just not as flashy as swords and dragons.

On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.

The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without shame or fear. It is a sort of heroism.

Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.

Duke is a character who believes that heroism and the Robin mantle can exist entirely separate from Batman himself.

The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting.

Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.

It's not just children who need heroes.

Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those that tend to tie it back.

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

No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than for a quart of blood, but that is not the market that heroes carry their blood to.

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

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

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

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

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

To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.

The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto.

Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner.