Quotes About Heroism

I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit of bad boy to fight the evil in the world. --Terri Mitchell

The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without shame or fear. It is a sort of heroism.

She sacrificed her life to make things right," Mitchell grumbled. "She[Silena Beuregard] was a hero

I think at this point in my life, I'd like to play more good guys than bad guys.

Use unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin?

Any girl who would risk her life for someone she loves certainly deserves to be called a lady.

I know Rick [Monday] has done a lot of good things as a player and as a person. But what he did for his country, he will be remembered for the rest of his life as an American hero.

Following the Leslie Charteris novels and the film portrayals by suave George Sanders, the radio Saint righted wrongs and aided victims of crime when the law was rendered powerless by restrictive procedure. The Saint simply broke the law, if the result justified it.

In the first Spider-Man, at the end of the movie, Peter Parker had to deny himself a relationship with a girl that he's in love with. The very next thing that happens is that he's swinging through the city.

Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.

As I princessed in the tower, he knight-in-shining-armoured up the drive.

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war --for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

I used to think heroes were brave and strong but the last look on Robyn's fave was not brave or strong, it was scared and unsure.

The Bible just said 'Thou shalt not kill', then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.

in that place men found themselves in when they needed bolstering? His sweet and pretty wife wasn't enough? His two healthy kids weren't enough? He needed more, he needed someone to worship him, someone to think he was a hero?

And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.

Let us go hurtling around the galaxy thwarting evil, shall we?

Tragedias heroicas que acaban en vodeviles grotescos, beneficiando a los de siempre. Pocos revolucionarios siguen siéndolo cuando alcanzan el poder.

Un buen hombre, como le digo… Uno de tantos que han nacido héroes y no lo saben.

Obreros y campesinos con escopetas de caza y fusiles que no sabían usar mantuvieron media España para la República y murieron con verdadero heroísmo en la otra media.