Heroism Quotes - Page 2

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.

Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter s!

True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune.

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

I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.

Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

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

There is only one way fit for a man - Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.

There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy... But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason... A love, inspired, it seems, by the gods, which it is impossible to fight, distort, destroy, or weaken. In fact, the attempts to destroy such loves only strengthen them. And to do nothing allows them to continue to grow at their natural pace, inexoribly, till this love becomes a wide and silent adoration.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

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

I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.

In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.

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

No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.

I pay tribute to the endless heroism of youth.

Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.

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

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. Like them, he was slandered and misunderstood.

Riddick is an antihero. He's the quintessential antihero. We all know how much I love antiheroes. It takes you 45 minutes in the movie just for Riddick to understand the word "heroism," let alone for anyone to hope that he can be heroic.

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