Quotes About Heroism

He glanced at the mayhem beyond the walls. "The time has come for someone to nobly sacrifice themselves. In the absence of anyone better qualified… it will have to be me.

As with so many things in life, heroic last stands are a great deal more appealing in concept than in reality.

Leo saw now that his father had been wrong. It's after the battle. That's when a man finds out who he truly is. He was no hero. He never had been. He was a fool. A great bloated tower of vanity. It had got his friends, his allies and hundreds who'd followed him killed. Now it would get him killed, too.

El valor puede obtenerse de muchos lugares y estar compuesto de muchos elementos diversos, de tal modo que en un momento determinado es posible que el cobarde de ayer se convierta en el héroe de mañana.

Heroism was exhausting business.

understood—heroism was exhausting business.

These manly sentiments, in private life, make the good citizen; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?

Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave -

Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.

The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.

Let valour end my life!

The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice.

No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.

She knew that women were rarely the centers of such stories. Instead, they were eye candy, arm candy, victims, or love interests. Mostly, they existed to help the great white hetero hero on his fucking epic journey. When there was a heroine, she weighed very little, wore very little, and had had her teeth fixed.

We should not let the family fall apart. We should not accept an evil we can change. We would stand up against it, would we not? Yes. We should. We would be heroes, even.

Nothing enrages Anglo-India more than the lantern of reason if it is exhibited for one moment after its extinction is decreed. All over Chandrapore that day the Europeans were putting aside their normal personalities and sinking themselves in their community. Pity, wrath, heroism, filled them, but the power of putting two and two together was annihilated.

Mislim da u po?etku svi pisci pišu kako bi bili junaci romana. Ali kasnije pišemo kako ne bismo mogli biti junaci romana.

Bucky did the things I couldn't. I was the icon. I wore the flag… But while I gave speeches to troops in the trenches… He was doing what he'd been trained to do… and he was highly trained.

King conveyed the gravity of the moment in 1968 and the necessity for the Poor People's Campaign, he conjured, without a hint of nostalgia, a history of the heroism of everyday people acting against all odds, a history no less full of disappointment and trauma. He

I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later.

Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp.