Heroism Quotes - Page 5

On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.

Librarianship is a form of heroism. It’s just not as flashy as swords and dragons.

The woman who led [downed airmen] was named Andrée De Jongh and her story - one of heroism and peril and astounding courage - became the inspiration for my novel.

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.

In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that.

Heroism isn't a one time thing: Live Heroically.

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.

Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.

Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death.

Mostly the subject of the photograph, which can be anyone really, coming down the street - someone that has no idea. "Heroism" in photography, just like in a novel, is for everyone.

Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture chamber, battleships go down with their guns still firing when their decks are awash.

War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

I think heroism comes in different packages. The superhero package is one that we're familiar with.

I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.

For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example and precept can still be drawn.

You picked the right road, even though it is the most difficult. That is the essence of heroism. (p. 326)

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

Just look at the list of who the lowest-paid people are. Pediatricians are at the bottom. You would also look at internists. You would look at psychiatrists. You would look at family physicians, HIV specialists. People who take care of chronic illnesses by seeing people carefully over time, those are the people who get the least money. The people who have the most are people like orthopedic surgeons, interventional cardiologists. And my point isn't that there is something wrong with heroism.

Heroism does not require spiritual maturity.