Quotes About Military Heroism

#1. [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

#2. Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security.

Frederick The Great

#3. Heroism, or military glory, is much admired by the generality of mankind. They consider it as the most sublime kind of merit. Menof cool reflection are not so sanguine in their praises of it.

David Hume

#4. Nourish your eye and spirit with inspiring things. They will bloom with your tending.

SARK

#5. There was never any butter in our home. Just margarine. My parents acted like butter was lethal. I don't think I ever saw either one have a piece of butter. I would go over to friends' houses and down sticks of butter.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#6. No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.

Louis D. Brandeis

#7. There's definitely healing properties to being in proximity to the ocean and that breeze. There's something about that Caribbean climate and humidity.

Johnny Depp

#8. Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

Uma Thurman

#9. People imitate their leader. Lead by example.

Barbara Corcoran

#10. After all, many people came here for vaguely therapeutic reasons, believing there were medicines dispensed by the very mood of the town's quaint streets and its sea-licked shores.

Thomas Ligotti

#11. Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill:
Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age
Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

Alexander Pope

#12. We train together to make each other great.

Kara Goucher

#13. What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.

Edward Sapir

#14. So much news about the president's assets, the president's broadsides, the president's teeth, the president's business dealings, the president's shoes: it got boring.

Claudia Pineiro

#15. 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

#16. You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all.

Maya Angelou

#17. War makes persons special, peoples cheap.

Brian Spellman

#18. Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they becomes its advocates.

Andrea Dworkin

#19. Shit just got real... fucked up

Anonymous

#20. 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