Quotes About Heroism

You might be a hero. I say might because the choice is ultimately yours

Is society debasing the idea of heroism by using it to describe anyone who makes people feel good about themselves?

Heroism does not require spiritual maturity.

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes longer.

I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!

This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of the herd nature, the military system, which I abhor. That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed. This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism by order, senseless violence, and all the pestilent nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism-how I hate them!

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! How vile and despicable seems war to me!

Heroism by order, senseless violence, and all the pestilent nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism—how I hate them! War seems to me a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

Where there are wars, where there are divided allegiances, where there are temptations to be resisted, objects of love to be fought for or defended--there, obviously, nobility and heroism have some sense.

Where there are wars, where there are divided allegiances, where there are temptations to be resisted, objects of love to be fought for or defended—there, obviously, nobility and heroism have some sense. But there aren't any wars nowadays.

Where there are wars, where there are divided allegiances, where there are temptations to be resisted, objects of love to be fought for or defended -- there, obviously, nobility and heroism have some sense. But there aren't any wars nowadays. The greatest care is taken to prevent you from loving any one too much.

La civilización no tiene necesidad de nobleza ni heroísmo. Ambas cosas son sintomas de ineficacia política.

Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political ineffiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody has any opportunities for being noble or heroic.

Horatius at the Bridge?

Thomas Babington Macaulay, Horatius at the Bridge

Victimhood rather than stoicism or heroism has become something eagerly publicized, even sought after, in our culture. To be a victim is in some way to have won, or at least to have got a head start in the great oppression race of life.

Beyond its entertainment values, 'Baywatch' has enriched and in many cases helped save lives.

Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name