Quotes About What Heroism Is Not

#1. Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them. - Author: James A. Garfield

#2. Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity. - Author: Havelock Ellis

#3. This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero. - Author: Angela Carter

#4. 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. - Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. 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 - Author: Tiffany Reisz

#6. The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery. - Author: Ernest Renan

#7. 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? - Author: C.S. Lewis

#8. 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. - Author: Naomi Ragen

#9. Heroes give hope. - Author: Amit Kalantri

#10. 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. - Author: Joe Abercrombie

#11. Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero!
No, Andrea ... unhappy is the land that needs a hero. - Author: Bertolt Brecht

#12. For a man who makes his salvation perfect through suffering, is more of a saint and a loving hero of nature. - Author: Auliq Ice

#13. Everything is going to be fine now because heroes are here. - Author: Amit Kalantri

#14. 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. - Author: Neil Cross

#15. 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. - Author: Liane Merciel

#16. 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. - Author: Yiyun Li

#17. 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. - Author: Theodore Dalrymple

#18. It's hard to know what happy is if you're not sure if you've felt it before. - Author: Kelly Thompson

#19. In the world of so-called villains, what we need is not another hero. What we need is to stop the influx of people who dress themselves as menaces and proceed to harm others. - Author: Vironika Tugaleva

#20. To emphasize the heroism of Columbus and his successors as navigators and discoverers, and to deemphasize their genocide, is not a technical necessity but an ideological choice. It serves - unwittingly - to justify what was done. - Author: Howard Zinn

#21. Heroism is not blind courage: it is selfless action. it is knowing the odds are stacked against you, but feeling that you must do what you do for the good of others. - Author: John Baldoni

#22. And my chest swells with an emotion I'm not familiar with . . . happiness? Pride? I'm not sure what it is, but I suddenly feel compelled to do things that will make me feel this way all the time, which gives me pause, since that seems dangerous too. - Author: Kelly Thompson

#23. What keeps India safe really is the heroism of millions of poor Indians who every day reject the allure of terrorism. What keeps India safe is just the courage of poor Indians, not the actions of its government. - Author: Aravind Adiga

#24. Why do you demand of me a heroism that perhaps you have not either? It is despotism; it is tyranny. If I ruin anyone, it is only myself ... I am not committing a murder. Why do you look at me like that? Why are you so pale? Rodya, darling, what's the matter? - Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#25. Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal? - Author: Erich Segal

#26. Oh, good," I say, a sour taste in my mouth. "Heroism is what I was focused on. Not, you know, trying not to die. - Author: Veronica Roth

#27. What is heroic is not making life any harder that it has to be. - Author: Marty Rubin

#28. 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. - Author: Mahatma Gandhi

#29. Vanye: You're asking me to kill you.
Luthiel: I'm asking you to save her. - Author: Robert Fanney

#30. 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. - Author: James Hollis

#31. not every praise deserves your full attention - Author: Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#32. 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 ... - Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

#33. In the context of today, this WAS heroism. - Author: John Howard Griffin

#34. It was a tragic end to a heroic life. - Author: Chris Kyle

#35. 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. - Author: Rainbow Rowell

#36. '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. - Author: Jeff Cooper

#37. 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. - Author: Henry Ward Beecher

#38. 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 - Author: Abraham Verghese

#39. 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. - Author: Mark Lawrence

#40. 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. - Author: John G. Lake

#41. 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. - Author: Jocelyn Murray

#42. There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. - Author: William Hazlitt

#43. 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. - Author: Henry David Thoreau

#44. 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. - Author: Ernest Renan

#45. 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. - Author: Gudjon Bergmann

#46. A hero is not only a brave individual, but a brave individual that dares to be different. - Author: Keely Barton

#47. 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. - Author: Joseph Campbell

#48. [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. - Author: Anne Frank

#49. All our heroism stems from our womenfolk. A man without a woman is like a pistol without a hammer;;the woman sparks the charge - Author: Victor Hugo

#50. Most of man's finest heroism is merely disguised necessity. - Author: William Hurrell Mallock

#51. 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. - Author: Robert Mueller

#52. As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore. - Author: Alan Moore

#53. 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. - Author: Andrea Seigel

#54. Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic. - Author: Leif Enger