Heroism Quotes

There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.

In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.

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

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

Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.

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.

Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

The will to be oneself is heroism

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

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.

Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.

Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.

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.

Heroism is an extraordinary feat of the flesh; holiness is an ordinary act of the spirit. One may bring personal glory; the other always gives God glory.

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.

Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.

There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.

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.