Quotes About Heroism

I decided to do the easy task of changing situations and conditions by being a hero, than staying back to do the difficult task of changing people by being just a man.

Heroes are hero no matter if everybody is watching them or nobody watching them.

The position of a hero is not for the comparision, it is a reference point

Your position may be highly powerful, but you will be a hero only when you are highly respected.

There will never be complete satisfaction in the life, satisfaction is an illusion, there is only heroism.

I was just trying to be a very good human, instead I became a hero.

Heroism of your father doesn't make you a hero, heroism of you doesn't make your son a hero.

For happiness don't pursue satisfaction, but pursue heroism.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.

Identifying and accepting our flaws, and then changing who we are, means breaking down the very structure of our reality before rebuilding it in a new and improved form. This is not easy. It's painful and disturbing. We'll often fight with all we have to resist this kind of profound change. This is why we call those who manage it 'heroes'.

Everyone who's psychologically normal thinks they're the hero.

Toil for the brave! The brave that are no more.

Toll for the brave—The brave! that are no more;All sunk beneath the wave,Fast by their native shore!

Reluctant hero, drafted again each Fourth of July, I'll bow and remember you. Who shall we follow next? Who shall we kill next time?

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.

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

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

All mortals need to decide how to live their lives. Warriors believe that since we are mortals and we will die, the best way to live our lives is to fight bravely and gain undying kleos. Maybe we are wrong.

it seems to me that this kind of hero—privileged, self-assured, the perpetual heir to the kingdom, and not averse to violence—has been and continues to be lauded throughout history.

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows out the candle; a women terrified of the pain of childbirth who says, 'It is time to become a mother'. Heroism does not always live on the battlefield.

Oh, to be young. To still be one's own hero.

Losing is like knowing that, in the movie scene where a thousand die but the hero lives, you're one of the obliterated.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!