Quotes About Heroism

It was only in the fairy tales that people were called upon to be so brave, to die for one another. Not in real-life Denmark.

Damn it, he mumbled apologetically, things like this never happened to Vorthalia the Bold. She raised a thoughtful eyebrow. How do you know? The histories of those times were all written by minstrels and poets. You try and think of a word that rhymes with 'bleeding ulcer

So the difference between a criminal and a hero is the order in which their vile crimes are committed. And justice comes with a sell-by date. In that case, you'd better hurry. You wouldn't want your heroism to spoil.

It could be surprisingly hard to counter Plain Stupid. Even by heroic measures.

I guess it just doesn't look very heroic to sneak up behind somebody and shoot them in the back. I can't help thinking it would be more efficient, though.

Some poetic epics extolled heroism in warriors; Adelis the actual soldier put his faith in logistics

For I say to you in all sadness of conviction, that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone—when you have felt around you a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and in despair have trusted to your own unshaken will—then only will you have achieved.

courage and devotion always stir generous hearts, and win admiration…

Suppose I broke away and left you, or made it impossible for you to stay. That I was base and false; in every way unworthy of your love, and it was clearly right for you to go, what would you do then?' 'Go away and --' He interrupted with a triumphant laugh, 'Die as heroines always do, tender slaves that they are.' 'No, live and forget you,' was the unexpected reply.

Antes de morir espero hacer algo importante, algo heroico o maravilloso, que me permita seguir viva en el recuerdo. No sé qué es, pero no pararé hasta descubrirlo y, algún día, os asombraré a todas.

O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

They did not hang medals, in those days, on all who by accident had heard a gun fired.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the fact that he began.

Habiby has been able to see man in unheroic positions. If the core of the tragic world is a moral order corrupted by evil, then the world depicted in this novel is a closed one where two evils have met and where heroism has been born out of the havoc that resulted from their meeting (In her introduction to Habiby's Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist)

What is heroism in our time? What is villainy? How much we have forgotten, if we don't know the answer to such questions anymore.

Man's proper stature is not one of mediocrity, failure, frustration, or defeat, but one of achievement, strength, and nobility. In short, man can and ought to be a hero.

Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security.

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

So the two went quietly out to save life or lose it, not counted the cost.

But maybe, that's the point. That there are no guarentees. There are no happy endings. But you show up anyway. You don't give up. You NEVER give up. Maybe that's what it takes to be a HERO. -Billy Kaplan

The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene

Courage can come fro many places, and be made of many things, and yesterday's coward can become tomorrow's hero in an instant if the time is right.

War is no place for good men.

That was the age of great men, doing what was right.