Quotes About Heroism

Of the estimated forty million men and women who have served in the armed forces since the Civil War, fewer than 3,500 have received the Medal of Honor, the highest honor the United States can bestow, some 60 percent posthumously.

There were no more heroes. Kennedy was dead, shot by an assassin in Dallas. Batman and Robin were dead... Superman was missing...

The gods destroy the heroes with a sudden blow, but they grind us mediocrities for weary, weary years.

Many grim tales stem from your green lands, and still deeds both noble and evil shall yet unfold there.

Charlie is one of the big good guys in my universe.

Dedication and discipline beats brilliance and giftedness every day of the week. And A-Players don't get lucky. They make lucky. Each time you resist a temptation and pursue an optimization you invigorate your heroism. Every instant you do that which you know to be right over the thing that you feel would be easy, you facilitate your entry into the hall of fame of epic achievers.

The world needs more heroes and why wait for them—when you have it in you to become one. Starting today.

permitas que se extinga tu fuego, chispa a chispa, cada una de ellas irremplazable, en los pantanos sin esperanza de lo aproximado, lo casi, lo nunca jamás. No permitas que perezca el héroe que llevas en tu alma, en solitaria frustración por la vida que merezcas pero que nunca pudiste alcanzar. Revisa la naturaleza de tu batalla. El mundo que deseas puede ser ganado, existe, es real y posible; es tuyo. AYN RAND

No permitas que se extinga tu fuego, chispa a chispa, cada una de ellas irremplazable, en los pantanos sin esperanza de lo aproximado, lo casi, lo nunca jamás. No permitas que perezca el héroe que llevas en tu alma, en solitaria frustración por la vida que merezcas pero que nunca pudiste alcanzar. Revisa la naturaleza de tu batalla. El mundo que deseas puede ser ganado, existe, es real y posible; es tuyo. AYN RAND

cada día representa una grandísima oportunidad de convertir cualquier forma de victimismo en heroísmo cotidiano.

It's easy to complain or condemn or take the path of least resistance. What takes guts is to stand for something higher, to behave greater and to be of service to others. Like Mandela. Like Gandhi. Like King. Heroes of mine. I wish I could be one-quarter as good as them.

Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?" —J.M. Coetzee

The great women and men of the world were all givers, not takers. Renounce the common delusion that those who accumulate the most win. Instead, do work that is heroic

Todas las mujeres y todos los hombres heroicos del mundo han sido perfeccionistas. Eran verdaderos optimizadores, enormemente obsesionados porque todo lo que hacían fuera destacable.

you just can't afford to wait another day to step into the hero you've always imagined yourself being.

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Postpone not your heroism and never delay your peacefulness.

I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.

Like Twain, Walt Whitman was mesmerized by Grant and grouped him with George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the quartet of greatest Americans. "In all Homer and Shakespeare there is no fortune or personality really more picturesque or rapidly changing, more full of heroism, pathos, contrast," he wrote.

John "was still her hero after all the years.

Her husband was not so brave as she.

My personal motto is: WWWWD?: What Would Wonder Woman Do?

Ordinary people were capable of extraordinary bravery.

In a great little book that he had the moral courage to publish during the First World War, Sigmund Freud traces physical heroism back to the fact that every man of intelligence knows that he must some day die, but that no man, in his innermost soul, ever believes in his own death.