Quotes About Acts Of Heroism

#1. 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.

Robert Mueller

#2. How was it that he could move soldiers to great acts of heroism and sacrifices with impassioned speeches, yet his mouth went as dry as the northern desert when he thought to tell Malinali that he'd enjoyed their afternoon together?

T.L. Morganfield

#3. Acts of heroism are easy - becoming a hero is a bitch.

Adam Johnson

#4. most true acts of heroism - reflections of one's deepest nature - remain unknown to the hero.

Boyd Varty

#5. Alfred T. Slipper was a janitor. Most of the time (often, in fact) they treated him with disdain. They had no idea of the astonishing acts of heroism, the blinding light, contained within his outward humdrum disguise.
Only Alfred's parakeet, Dolores, knew who he was and what he could do.

Kate DiCamillo

#6. 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.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.

John F. Kennedy

#8. There is no music like a little river's ... It takes the mind out-of-doors ... and ... it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#9. For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#10. When you live with a 20/20 mindset your path is straight, vision is clear, and decisions are precise. You see the bigger picture with a broader view and incorporate different angles and perspectives.

Farshad Asl

#11. The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts.

Felix O. Hartmann

#12. Torpedoes were expensive, and heavy. Each cost up to $ 5,000 - over $ 100,000 today - and weighed over three thousand pounds, twice the weight of a Ford Model T.

Erik Larson

#13. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#14. There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Alexander Hamilton

#15. No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.

Teresa Of Avila

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

Amit Kalantri

#17. Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

#18. She wanted to stomp her foot, throw a tantrum, throw a punch.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#19. I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

Tracy Chapman

#20. I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#21. Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

Tom G. Palmer

#22. In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shanghai park, 'Chinese and Dogs Not Allowed'.

Paul Johnson