Quotes About Heroism

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work.

Firefighting is all about ass - busting ours to save yours.

Firefighters are hot stuff!

You might be a firefighter if "climbing the corporate ladder" has nothing to do with career advancement.

Firefighters save hearts and homes.

Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.

A man of courage never wants weapons.

Firefighters - your worst nightmare is just another day at the office.

Firefighting - one of the few professions left that still makes house calls.

When all you have is a shard of papyrus with a few words on it...or a single line quoted in somebody else's text, the potential of what's lost haunts you. It's like the boys who died in Korea. We grieve them the most because we never saw the men they would become....How much easier it was to be a hero when you no longer walked the earth.

You democratize heroism. Everybody is a hero, and simply for doing (and often not well at that) the ordinary tasks of living as a half-decent person. Does your mother fix you breakfast? She is a hero. Does your father visit you every weekend without fail? A hero. Does your teacher mark your papers faithfully when you make a mistake? Unexampled heroism, that. If everyone is a hero, then no one is a hero; and genuine heroes will go unnoticed in all the mindless self-congratulation.

This found its classic expression in Homer's Iliad, in which Glaucus says to Diomedes that he still hears his father's urgings ringing in his ears: Always be the best, my boy, the bravest, and hold your head high above the others.

You know the mistake I made tonight ? It was believing in you. Well, Mr James Bond 007, whatever you were is gone. It belongs to another time. There are no more heroes any more.

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

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

Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.

Kentucky's first responders and fire fighters are true public servants who keep our communities safe.

Clay Hunt was the kind of individual that has made America a great country. In 2005, when his country needed him, he enlisted in the Marine Corps. Shot in Iraq, he earned a Purple Heart, and after he recuperated, he graduated from Marine Corps Scout Sniper School and was deployed to Afghanistan.

Nobody knows this, but my hero is Che Guevara. Why? Because he was magic. He was a hero. Che resisted. He fought against the system.

I would love to play a romantic lead at some point. I would love to play the hero at some point. It would be fun to be in a huge franchise blockbuster based on a series of books, whether it's fantastical or science fiction.

Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.

If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, 'she would have gone about the country with her sword drawn, rescuing and defending everyone in distress. She always wants to fight when she sees people in trouble.

Being a good mother is being a hero. Right?