Heroism Quotes

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

George Bernard Shaw

An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into a bad pudding to make it palatable.

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

R. D. Hitchcock

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

Goethe

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

George Bernard Shaw

Play the man Master Ridley we shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England as I trust shall never be put out.

Bishop Hugh Latimer

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

Heroes are created by popular demand sometimes out of the scantiest materials . . . such as the apple that William Tell never shot the ride that Paul Revere never finished the flag that Barbara Frietchie never waved.

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

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the forms of psychological heroism is the willingness to tolerate anxiety and uncertainty in the pursuit of our values - whether these values be work goals the love of another human being the raising of a family or personal growth.

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

Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.

Randall Jarrell

All these were honoured in their generations and were the glory of their times.

Bible

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

One murder makes a villain millions a hero.

Bishop Beilby Porteus

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

If the only one who can kill an angel can’t do it, then who can?’ It’s a good question, one that takes me a minute to come up with an answer. ‘Obadiah West can. Him and his freedom fighters. I’m just a teenager.’‘History is filled with teenagers who lead the fight. Joan of Arc. Okita Soji, the samurai. Alexander the Great. They were all teenagers when they began leading their armies. I think we’re back to those times again, kid.

Susan Ee

And you came back to Lyrian?" Galloran said in disbelief."Believe it or not, I came through the same hippopotamus that brought me here the first time. Jumped into the tank on purpose. I wanted to keep others from wasting their time pursuing the Word. And I couldn't ditch Rachel."Galloran smiled. "Truly, you are possessed by that species of madness that begets heroism.

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.

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.

Mercedes Lackey

No war is ever glorious. Heroes are usually dead. Besides, they rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances.

Aleksandr Voinov

Cowards are always much more dangerous than heroes.

Heroes don’t seek attention. But they show up continually in the little things. Train your eyes to look for them. They may not be as loud as the headlines or newsfeeds. But they’re all around you, multitudes of them. Train your eyes and listen with your heart… Both rightfully know that the quiet things, the little things, they are the big things. They are far more important than the noise of the world.

Never say war insane at the moment for you to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind.

Auliq-Ice

We're our own heroes.

They blew out a breath and did the thing all heroes must do—they took that terrifying first step.

The story of John Ritter illustrates what it means to be a hero and how we treat our heroes. When we idealize real people they lose their humanity. They are turned into idols that we worship and may later want to destroy. Heroes are transformed from conscious-feeling fellow homo sapiens into characters in our stories. The greatest hero-characters will become legends or even mythic characters. We might think we know them, but when they are idolized they become more like treasured memories, existing in our minds as archetypal characters, rather than living-breathing human beings with thoughts and feelings of their own.

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

Florence Nightingale

The noble heart will find no shortage of places to offer itself in martyrdom, but you cannot die on every battlefield.”~ Duncan Sinclair, from The Outcast Highlander

R.L. Syme

No," I said. "I choose the prophecy. It will be about me.""Why are you saying that?" she cried. "You want to be responsible for the whole world?"It was the last thing I wanted, but I didn't say that. I knew I had to step up and claim it."I can't let Nico be in any more danger," I said. "I owe that much to his sister. I…let themboth down. I'm not going to let that poor kid suffer any more.

From this Legionary school a new man will have to emerge, a man with heroic qualities; a giant of our history to do battle and win over all the enemies of our Fatherland, his battle and victory having to extend even beyond the material world into the realm of invisible enemies, the powers of evil. Everything that our mind can imagine as more beautiful spiritually; everything the proudest that our race can produce, greater, more just, more powerful, wiser, purer, more diligent and more heroic, this is what the Legionary school must give us! A man in whom all the possibilities of human grandeur that are implanted by God in the blood of our people be developed to the maximum. This hero, the product of Legionary education, will also know how to elaborate programs; will also know how to solve the Jewish problem; will also know how to organize the state well; will also know how to convince other Romanians; and if not, he will know how to win, for that is why he is a hero. This hero, this Legionary of bravery, labour, and justice, with the powers God implanted in his soul, will lead our Fatherland on the road of its glory.

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

Me, personally. I do not know a soul who perished that day of 9/11. But it did then, does now, and I imagine it always will bring out the Patriot in me.

James Hauenstein

But the days of true heroism are over, when a citizen fought for his country like a Fabricius or a Washington, and then returned to his farm to let his virtuous fervour run in a more placid, but not less salutary, stream.

Mary Wollstonecraft

My friends wanted their names in the list of employees of some company, well I wanted my name in the list of the heroes of the world.

Heroes may die but they doesn't get tired.

Heroes are higher than their vulnerability that is why they are heroes.

As a general man I tried watching movies, playing sports, going to picnics and other entertainments but I still got bored, then I tried heroism and now I am hero, and I never get bored.

For happiness don't pursue satisfaction, but pursue heroism.

Finishing work makes you a man, finishing difficult work makes you a hero.

One courageous act can make you a hero but frequent courageous acts will keep you a hero.

You have worked too long in the life, now its time for heroism.

A hero lives forever for the ones who carry on.

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

Chuck Palahniuk

He had acquired a reputation for possessing a noble character, and even for being something of a hero - or, at least, in the assessment of one contemporary commentator, one of those parties who are able to fulfil the public need in the event of genuine heroes being absent or, for any reason, unpalatable.

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

Lloyd Alexander

To survive in this world, you got to be many times a coward but at least once a hero

Acts of heroism are easy—becoming a hero is a bitch.

You might be a hero. I say might because the choice is ultimately yours

Heroes don't always have capes, badges or uniforms. Sometimes, they support those who do.

Our mother used to say that a hero doesn't always have to slay a dragon to save the day." She swept a lock of hair behind her ear in an honest gesture, then pursed her lips and looked back at him, her gaze endearing. "Sometimes he just walks through the fire alongside you, and that's enough.

If, as has been postulated before, heroism happens when courage meets circumstance, what if the circumstances are mundane?

Perhaps elements like tenacity and humility combine to form a heroic compound.

I asked my Greek chorus about this sort of hero: the Underappreciated Personification of Resolve.

Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us.

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

William Dean Howells

Heroes are more than just stories, they’re people. And people are complicated; people are strange. Nobody is a hero through and through, there’s always something in them that’ll turn sour... you’ll learn it one day. There are no heroes, only villains who win.

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