Heroism Quotes

There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.

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

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.

In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.

Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.

I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.

Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.

The bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what it is in their power to improve, but do not imagine themselves to be saviours. In their humble struggle is true heroism.

Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

The will to be oneself is heroism

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.

Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

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

Heroism is an extraordinary feat of the flesh; holiness is an ordinary act of the spirit. One may bring personal glory; the other always gives God glory.

I think heroism is when somebody really goes above and beyond the call of duty and does something outstanding for either themselves or somebody else.

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

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.

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.

Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter s!

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

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.

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

It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.

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.

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

True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

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

I pay tribute to the endless heroism of youth.

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

There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy... But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason... A love, inspired, it seems, by the gods, which it is impossible to fight, distort, destroy, or weaken. In fact, the attempts to destroy such loves only strengthen them. And to do nothing allows them to continue to grow at their natural pace, inexoribly, till this love becomes a wide and silent adoration.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

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.

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

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

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

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

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.

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

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