Heroism Quotes
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As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
One of the forms of psychological heroism is the willingness to tolerate anxiety and uncertainty in the pursuit of our values (Quote by - whether these values be work goals, the love of another human being, the raising of a family or personal growth. (Quote by - Samuel Branden)
The hero is the man dedicated to the creation and / or defense of reality-conforming, life-promoting values. (Quote by - Andrew Bernstein)
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in. (Quote by - David Lloyd George)
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. (Quote by - Abigail Adams)
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end (Quote by - Lise Hand)
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket. (Quote by - Doug Horton)
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle. (Quote by - D. J. Enright)
Ezra Pound (Quote by - idiosyncrasy on a monument. (Quote by - Randall Jarrell)
We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea. (Quote by - Thor Heyerdahl)
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. (Quote by - F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference. (Quote by - Marc Morial)
An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness (Quote by - much as plums have to be put into a bad pudding to make it palatable. (Quote by - E. M. Forster)
No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one. (Quote by - Jean Paul)
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes -- ah, they have all the necessary leisure. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
No hero is immortal till he dies (Quote by - W. H. Auden)
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. (Quote by - Natalie Clifford Barney)
Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism. (Quote by - David Ben Gurion)
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom (Quote by - Herbert Spencer)
Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea. (Quote by - Bernhard von Bulow)
It is impossible to strive for the heroic life The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism. (Quote by - Johan Huizinga)
1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves. (Quote by - Rosa DeLauro)
In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying. (Quote by - R. D. Hitchcock)
Faith is the heroism of the intellect. (Quote by - Charles Henry Parkhurst)
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
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. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)
I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism. (Quote by - Abebe Bikila)
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
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. (Quote by - Bishop Hugh Latimer)
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. (Quote by - Gene Siskel)
One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. (Quote by - Bishop Beilby Porteus)
In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one person? There were so many acts of heroism that day from so many people, whether it be firemen and police officers in New York and our agents also. (Quote by - Robert Mueller)
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen. (Quote by - Andrew Bernstein)
A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau)
Self-trust is the essence of heroism (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy -- common clay, if you like -- eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others -- the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes. (Quote by - Jean Anouilh)
What is a hero without love for mankind. (Quote by - Doris Lessing)
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. (Quote by - Bertolt Brecht)
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. (Quote by - Joseph Campbell)
Every hero becomes a bore at last. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule (Quote by - Miguel de Unamuno)
To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism Bordering on insanity. (Quote by - Richard Thompson)
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. (Quote by - Aristide Briand)
The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict. (Quote by - Andrew Bernstein)
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer. (Quote by - Novalis)
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. (Quote by - Arthur Ashe)
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed? (Quote by - Jeanette Winterson)
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials. (Quote by - Gerald W. Johnson)
Don't be so humble. You're not that great. (Quote by - Golda Meir)
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
A hero is someone we can admire without apology. (Quote by - Kitty Kelley)
A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success (Quote by - Miguel de Unamuno)
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. (Quote by - Kathryn Bigelow)
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times. (Quote by - Angus Wilson)
It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero. (Quote by - Goethe)
I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides I see no redeeming features in Watergate. (Quote by - Sam Ervin)
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before. (Quote by - Kathryn Bigelow)
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. (Quote by - Plato)
Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism. (Quote by - Michael Bay)
When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
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. (Quote by - Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. (Quote by - Washington Irving)
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of illness, of loneliness and of death. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)
Martyrdom (Quote by - the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)
We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Heroism in a bad cause. (Quote by - Karel Reisz)
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice It demands greater heroism than war It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. (Quote by - Thomas Merton)
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
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. (Quote by - Thor Heyerdahl)
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. (Quote by - John Keats)
You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us. (Quote by - C. D. Andrews)
All these were honoured in their generations and were the glory of their times. (Quote by - Bible)
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. (Quote by - Bette Davis)
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. (Quote by - Ernest Renan)
A hero is a man who does what he can. (Quote by - Romain Rolland)
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. (Quote by - Joseph Heller)
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. (Quote by - John Barth)
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. (Quote by - Norman Schwarzkopf)
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
All actual heroes are essential men, / And all men possible heroes... (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. (Quote by - Alexander Hamilton)
There are heroes in evil as well as in good (Quote by - François de la Rochefoucauld)
Heroism is endurance for one moment more. (Quote by - George F Kennan)
