Quotes About Heroism

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

William Hazlitt

#2. Vanye: You're asking me to kill you.
Luthiel: I'm asking you to save her.

Robert Fanney

#3. As the child once fantasized that its wishes governed the world, and the youth fantasized that heroism could manage to do it all, so the person in the second half of life is obliged to come to a more sober wisdom based on a humbled sense of personal limitations and the inscrutability of the world.

James Hollis

#4. not every praise deserves your full attention

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#5. 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

#6. In the context of today, this WAS heroism.

John Howard Griffin

#7. It was a tragic end to a heroic life.

Chris Kyle

#8. The ultimate act of heroism shouldn't be death. You're always saying you want to give Baz the stories he deserves ... So you're going to kill him off? Isn't the best revenge supposed to be a life well-lived? The punk-rock way to end it would be to let them live happily ever after.

Rainbow Rowell

#9. 'Heroism' is not the same as coping. A man who does his job properly and succeeds through his own efforts is definitely to be commended, but he is not a hero in the classic sense until he deliberately lays his life on the line for a cause he deems to be greater than himself.

Jeff Cooper

#10. Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement ... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

Henry Ward Beecher

#11. What neither the reader nor Stone would accept was that his self-amputation was as much and act of conceit as it was an act of heroism p 61

Abraham Verghese

#12. Better a long ignoble life of shallow pleasures than a short stab at heroism, ending with a short stab. And just because one man plays another doesn't always mean that it's not the right direction for both of them.

Mark Lawrence

#13. Men have said that the cross of Christ was not a heroic thing, but I want to tell you that the cross of Jesus Christ has put more heroism in the souls of men than any other event in human history.

John G. Lake

#14. It is not triumph which defines a man, but tragedy. Triumph always brings out the best in men, but tragedy shows us what we are made of.

Jocelyn Murray

#15. 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

#16. The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our future field.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. 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.

Ernest Renan

#18. It was in this atmosphere of war, heroism, and controversy that my wife's grandmother, Johanna Boel Sigurdardottir, met and fell in love with Samuel Emmett Hearn Jr. He was a gallant soldier, and she was a natural beauty.

Gudjon Bergmann

#19. A hero is not only a brave individual, but a brave individual that dares to be different.

Keely Barton

#20. The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point; to shatter and annihilate that key knot of his limited existence.

Joseph Campbell

#21. [There's] something we should never forget; while others display their heroism in battle or against the Germans, our helpers prove theirs every day by their good spirits and affection.

Anne Frank

#22. All our heroism stems from our womenfolk. A man without a woman is like a pistol without a hammer;;the woman sparks the charge

Victor Hugo

#23. Most of man's finest heroism is merely disguised necessity.

William Hurrell Mallock

#24. 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

#25. As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.

Alan Moore

#26. For me, one of the most beautiful and rewarding aspects of serial reality TV is that characters can move freely along a spectrum of heroism and villainy.

Andrea Seigel

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

Leif Enger

#28. Garahel always used to say that heroism was just another word for horror, and maybe a worse one. A hero always feels that he has to do what's right. Sometimes that leads to tormenting himself with doubt long after the deed is done.

Liane Merciel

#29. Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

Havelock Ellis

#30. This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

Angela Carter

#31. Heroism
that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#32. Hagen turned his back to her. Who could blame him? Why he hadn't dropped her yet she didn't know. Masochism maybe? Heroism? Maybe he wanted to save her. Maybe he was too embarrassed to admit he couldn't. And

Tiffany Reisz

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

Ernest Renan

#34. By the way, don't 'weep inwardly' and get a sore throat. If you must weep, weep: a good honest howl! I suspect we - and especially, my sex - don't cry enough now-a-days. Aeneas and Hector and Beowulf, Roland and Lancelot blubbered like schoolgirls, so why shouldn't we?

C.S. Lewis

#35. How do they manage to go on living? ... By loving life. And-in spite of everything-by loving God. By having enough faith to start over again and again; enough faith to risk having our hearts break all over again. That's the true meaning of faith. It's the deepest kind of heroism.

Naomi Ragen

#36. Heroes give hope.

Amit Kalantri

#37. I'm a fucking coward."
"Maybe." Craw jerked his thumb over his shoulder at Whirrun's corpse. "There's a hero. Tell me who's better off.

Joe Abercrombie

#38. Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero!
No, Andrea ... unhappy is the land that needs a hero.

Bertolt Brecht

#39. For a man who makes his salvation perfect through suffering, is more of a saint and a loving hero of nature.

Auliq Ice

#40. Everything is going to be fine now because heroes are here.

Amit Kalantri

#41. The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I have always been interested in good people who do bad things for understandable reasons.

Neil Cross

#42. Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.

James A. Garfield

#43. Regarding heroism, I grew up in a culture where you learn about heroes and heroines all the time. In a way, when you call someone a hero or heroine, it's the same as calling them a villain.

Yiyun Li

#44. His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields.

William Manchester

#45. 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.

Sam Ervin

#46. In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#47. There is no particular merit in fighting for your own skin when you know that it is fight or die, but there is considerable merit in being prepared to die when you know you can escape quite easily. Put at its lowest, there is a certain stubborn foolhardy heroism in that.

M.M. Kaye

#48. Soft or hard, love was an act of heroism.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#49. [On gay ban in the military:] Heroism, I believe, is a trait that does not know race, color, creed, sex, or sexual orientation.

Dianne Feinstein

#50. If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.

Matthew Arnold

#51. The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters. - Cus D'Amato

Cus D'Amato

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

Amit Kalantri

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

Lisa Bevere

#54. The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.

Andrew Bernstein

#55. 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.

Anna Julia Cooper

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

John Keats

#57. Liberty coincides with heroism. It is the asceticism of the great man, the bow bent to the breaking-point.

Albert Camus

#58. Heroism of your father doesn't make you a hero, heroism of you doesn't make your son a hero.

Amit Kalantri

#59. Someone needs to fight,someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero.

Amit Kalantri

#60. I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.

George Carlin

#61. To persevere with the will to understand in the face of obstacles is the heroism of consciousness.

Nathaniel Branden

#62. 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

#63. 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.

Rosa DeLauro

#64. The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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

Audre Lorde

#66. You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they've got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything you'll ever see on TV.

Harvey Pekar

#67. 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.

Angus Wilson

#68. Where there are wars, where there are divided allegiances, where there are temptations to be resisted, objects of love to be fought for or defended
there, obviously, nobility and heroism have some sense.

Aldous Huxley

#69. 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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#70. So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero.

Joe Abercrombie

#71. Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom of cruelty, or she may simply have confused lack of capital with heroism while searching for rescue without knowing from what.

Anne Roiphe

#72. I almost laugh. My great act of heroism, the only important thing I have ever done, and they think I was working for the Erudite when I did it.

Veronica Roth

#73. 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

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

Amit Kalantri

#75. 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.

Theodore Dalrymple

#76. 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.

Aristide Briand

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

Brad Herzog

#78. Heroism does not require spiritual maturity.

Abel Hermant

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

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#80. 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.

Joel Cornah

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

Roy Thompson

#82. There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

David Gemmell

#83. When you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.

Mariah Carey

#84. Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn't register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you're too daft to know you're mortal?

David Benioff

#85. Where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?

China Mieville

#86. 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.

John Assaraf

#87. Is society debasing the idea of heroism by using it to describe anyone who makes people feel good about themselves?

Lena Williams

#88. On the night he died - he was twenty-seven - Basquiat had been planning to see a Run-DMC show. When people asked him what his art was about, he'd hit them with the same three words: Royalty, heroism, and the streets.

Jay-Z

#89. I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.

David Foster Wallace

#90. Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear ... Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#91. I'm thrilled to be taking over Green Arrow. What I adore about the Arrow is his recklessness. He'll shoot off on an impulse, dispatch someone if they deserve it; his heroism is instinctive.

Ann Nocenti

#92. It's hard to know what happy is if you're not sure if you've felt it before.

Kelly Thompson

#93. I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.

Virginia Woolf

#94. Some days, it's not about passion and courage. It's not about heroism and drama. It's not about slaying dragons or conjuring exotic visions... Some days, it's simply about the delicious act of doing simple things, simply.

Jack Ricchiuto

#95. Luthiel: I cannot change what will happen. I can only change how I act in the face of it.

Robert Fanney

#96. Sometimes in life we must fight not only without fear, but also without hope.

Alessandro Pertini

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

Peter Kreeft

#98. You don't see heroism, humanity and hope like you do in a horror story. Horror celebrates the kind of friendship that keeps you standing shoulder to shoulder with someone even when the world is falling apart around you.

Alexander Gordon Smith

#99. Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously guilt-laden man. He was drenched in a sense of shame about his being featured as the preeminent leader of African-American culture and the civil rights movement.

Michael Eric Dyson

#100. What Lawrence had discovered on the battlefield was that while moments of heroism might certainly occur, the cumulative experience of war, its day-in, day-out brutalization, was utterly antithetical to the notion of leading a heroic life.

Scott Anderson