Quotes About Heroism

Bons ou maus, os homens acham todos que por qualquer façanha deles tens de lhes erguer um altar, como o São Jorge a matar o dragão.

Bons ou maus, todos os homens acham que, a cada ação deles, você deve colocá-los num altar como um são Jorge matando o dragão.

Our age is so resolutely unheroic, and the employment opportunities for registered demigods are now so scarce, that all we can do, in our enfeebled state, is laugh with envy and disbelief at the memory of those who still had the wit and the wherewithal to live large.

A person who is worth trusting does not become an overnight hero and does not get an overwhelming support from the people.

Cyrano de Bergerac is a lesson in living life large.

Back in my own place, the sky burst in upon me from the window and I was reminded of a long-forgotten passage in War and Peace. Napoleon, walking through the battlefield, sees a dying soldier and, holding up the flag of France, declaims: "Do you know, my noble hero, that you have given your life for your country?" "Please! Please!" the soldier cries. "You are blotting out the sky.

I for one had come to that point of suffering at which I did not really care if only I could die without much pain. They talk of the heroism of the dying—they little know—it would be so easy to die, a dose of morphia, a friendly crevasse, and blissful sleep. The trouble is to go on....

I for one, had come to that point of suffering at which I did not really care if only I could die without much pain. They talk of the heroism of the dying - the little they know - it would be so easy to die, a dose of morphia, a friendly crevasse, and blissful sleep. The trouble is to go on...

In the stout-hearted person of Harrison Ford, Indy was a new generation's Ethan Edwards—a young John Wayne-bwana dispatched to curate the Third World. Not an identity-cloaked sci-fi superhero but a bullwhip-toting, fedora-wearing, two-fisted sophisticate who respected the Bible and saved the children of India—a superb hero yet an intrinsically nostalgic figure.

In het algemeen wordt passiviteit te weinig als deugd erkent. Actie lijk altijd beter - want heroïscher - dan rustig afwachten en nietsdoen. Vermoedelijk komt dat ook omdat wij vrijwel allemaal neuroten zijn die de leegte willen opvullen met werk en andere activiteiten.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.

I've always been attracted to films which explore the qualities of courage.

I believe Ram chose me in 2008 to express himself. Ram is a hero and it was a big challenge for me back then.

I love 'Gladiator' and '300.'

On 'CSI: NY,' the audience knew I was a really good guy, and I caught the bad guy.

I like playing good guys.

if you kill a cockroach you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly, you are evil. morals have aesthetic criteria.

It is a comfort to me to know that above the steam and filth of human lowlands there is a higher, brighter humanity, very small in number (for everything outstanding is by its nature rare): one belongs to it, not because one is more talented or more virtuous or more heroic or more loving than the men below, but—because one is colder, brighter, more far-seeing, more solitary; because one endures, prefers, demands solitude as happiness.

What makes Heroic? — To face simultaneously one's greatest suffering and one's highest hope.

What makes heroic? – To go to meet simultaneously one's greatest sorrow and one's greatest hope.

Preparatory human beings. — I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honor to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day — the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.

What makes one heroic?— Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

Als 'ein Frevel, als ein Raub an der göttlichen Natur' erscheine hier die Aneignung des Feuers, der erste Schritt 'jeder aufsteigenden Kultur', und diesen 'arischen Mythus', der 'den heroischen Drang' darstelle, 'über den Bann der Individuation hinauszuschreiten', stellt er den 'semitischen Sündenfallmythus [entgegen], in welchem die Neugierde, die lügnerische Vorspiegelung, die Verführbarkeit, die Lüsternheit [...] als der Ursprung des übels angesehen wurde'.