Top 29 Military Hero Quotes
#1. We aren't heroes out there in the military. We're just Patriots.
Marcus Luttrell
#2. To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism ... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. The ideal of the military hero is clearly echoed in other contexts, and it includes those who routinely risk their health and lives in the line of duty, such as police officers, firefighters, and paramedics.
Philip G. Zimbardo
#5. The mere fact that [Tommy Atkins] saw himself as a hero, and not as the rough he was, enlisted, more probably, through hunger, and disciplined by fear, tended to make him behave like a hero, as he did on the Ridge of Delhi and in the fog at Inkermann.
Esme Cecil Wingfield-Stratford
#6. Continuous Partial Attention involves an artificial sense of constant crisis, of living in a 24/7, always-on world. It contributes to feeling stressed, overwhelmed, overstimulated, and unfulfilled; it compromises our ability to reflect, to make decisions, and to think creatively. Not
Sharon Salzberg
#7. 'The Red' is the first book in a trilogy that gained a big following as a self-published e-book, and is now out in paper from Saga. It introduces us to reluctant hero Shelley, a former anti-war activist who chooses to join the military rather than serve jail time after being arrested at a protest.
Annalee Newitz
#8. We tend to value military heroes and Schwarzenegger types who are physically courageous. The heroics of doing the right thing every day even when it is dull and inconvenient are undervalued.
Mary Pipher
#9. I've just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst or trigger to access these powers.
Uri Geller
#10. I feel absolutely no loyalty to Serbian, Croatian, or Bosnian national causes. I have no other emotion but utter contempt for people who helped destroy Yugoslavia, and I feel the same about the people who are now selling what is left of it." (p. 13)
Andrej Grubacic
#11. You. Aren't you one of those Morgan boys? You must be the bad one.
Teri Anne Stanley
#12. Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.
Leonard Bernstein
#13. No, but I imagine there's a gun tucked away somewhere on your body. And I know what you can do with that, hotshot."
He took a step toward her. "With what, sweetheart? With the gun? Or the body?
Lynn Raye Harris
#14. Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
Karen Kain
#15. The bad thing caught you.
I've never retreated in my life. I've never backed away from a fight and I've never cowered in fear. Ever. That's not who I am. But I've been in combat long enough to know that when something unbeatable chases you, you do the only thing you can do.
You run. - Gabe
Courtney Cole
#16. I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
Ferdinand Marcos
#17. Believe me that every man you see in a military uniform is not a hero.
Duke Of Wellington
#18. He was a drool-worthy, panty-drenching, yummy work of masculine art.
Kelly Moran
#19. Heroism doesn't always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history. Sometimes a chicken can save a man's life.
Mary Roach
#20. Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.
Germaine Greer
#21. He's in the military, serving overseas in Afghanistan."
"Well done. You're marrying an American hero," A.J. says.
"I guess I am."
"I hate those guys," he says. "They make me feel totally inadequate. Tell me something shitty about him so that I feel better.
Gabrielle Zevin
#22. This is where people misunderstand war. When you attack another country for its resources, you are the pirate. But when you protect your country from the pirates, you are the hero.
Suzy Kassem
#23. I think you can still look to Jesus' word for guidance in your life. It's just not the guidance that it seems like most Christians are applying to their own lives.
Craig Thompson
#24. The infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad ... Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected. Iraqis are heroes.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#25. For me giving up is way harder than trying.
Kanye West
#28. I put my heart and soul everyday into showing my appreciation for the incredible sacrifices of the US Military heroes by using my freedom and rights, that they provided and safeguarded at such sacrifice, to the best of my ability fighting the enemies at home.
Ted Nugent
#29. 'Suits' fans. I've never met a more diverse audience: across gender, race, class. It's incredible. People who are high-powered lawyers to doormen. A Chinese immigrant cable installer - who barely spoke English - loves 'Suits!'
David Costabile
