Quotes About Heroism

This girl (Stephanie) is but a few months away from her seventeenth birthday and already she has saved the world and killed a god. What have you done?

Around the hero, everything becomes a tragedy.Around God, everything becomes what? a world?

I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardently pray to God that I might be less like myself and more like them.

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage

Don't be sorry. Be good. Be right. Be a hero.

Sometimes the good guy rips out innocent people's throats. That's just something the world need to live with if it wants the good guy to keep saving the day.

I had a Super Grover doll growing up. Super Grover was very clumsy, he wasn't very good-looking. But in his own way he'd always save the day.

What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.

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

If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.

There's a long history of all kinds of cop films... But all these films are really about the same thing: the good guys triumphing over the bad guys.

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.

I don't want to be a hero, I don't want to ever let you down.

A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.

We put on our best clothes and die like heroes.

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.