Heroism Quotes - Page 3

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism consists in holding to that extremity throughout their lives.

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.

I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

Faith is the very heroism and enterprise of intellect. Faith is not a passivity, but a faculty. Faith is power, the material of effect. Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great work men of history have been men who believed like giants.

We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.

The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

The hero is suffered to be himself.

Routine is the death to heroism.

Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism, or altruistic acts, or work in the cause of social change? What about wealth or accomplishment? And yet something about it rings true, finally—that what we want is to be brought into relationship, to be inside, within. Perhaps it’s true that nothing matters more to us than that.

Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.

In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.

Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly towards an object, and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them,--that it was a vain endeavor?

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

Genuine bravery occurs when you least expect it, and when, in fact, you're quite oblivious of it. Sometimes heroism happens when you press on; other times when you let go. Once in a while, it happens when you do a little dance all your own.

A hero is someone right who doesn't change.

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.