Quotes About Heroism

You do have to wonder how Jack Bauer, maverick hero of '24,' can stay hidden for so long when no matter where he goes, he always seems within range of a TV camera. Or six.

So many heroes are driven by destiny. Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, they were all chosen and born to heroism. Even with Batman, it doesn't feel like Bruce could do anything else. His whole life was leading him to become the Dark Knight.

We want to teach a better way and to be a hero, and there's no one like Wonder Woman to do it.

Wonder Woman is such an amazing character.

Wonder Woman is not horrible. Her villains should be.

Wonder Woman is one of my favorite superheroes.

The pleasure of reading a story and wondering what will come next for the hero is a pleasure that has lasted for centuries and, I think, will always be with us.

In 'Seven Ancient Wonders,' Jack West and his team break someone out of Guantanamo Bay. I'm not going to preach to people and say, 'Guantanamo Bay, bad', but I will have my hero go and break somebody out of it, and maybe people will think about it that way.

Valor' is a word we don't commonly hear. People can show courage and bravery confronting many different challenges in life. But 'valor' connotes willingly putting oneself in mortal danger to protect others.

On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, 'What God do you pray to?' What beliefs do you hold?'

There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.

It's quite a thrill to be playing a hero.

I write crime novels and thrillers - I'm a big fan of cops. You can never forget that they run towards what everyone else runs away from.

Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.

September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

People throughout time have grieved, have fallen in love, have fallen out of love. We are sometimes petty and sometimes heroic, and we have been that way forever.

I jumped on the grenade that was thrown at myself and my friend. I don't recommend it.

In the end, I believe, heroism is simply faithfulness, a moment-by-moment choice to do what is right—to love once more, to give without fear in the face of every challenge. Heroism is forged and known in such choices, whether in a blazing moment of courage or in the countless small moments of luminous, ordinary life.

heroism. Her heart is transformed by suffering into one whose quiet and unspectacular faithfulness sustains the

I always wanted to be a hero--to sacrifice my life in a big way one time--and yet, God has required my sacrifice to be thousands of days, over many years, with one more kiss, one more story, one more meal.

Je hebt het hart van een leeuw, Coriander. Je bent dapper genoeg om de kamer van de koningin binnen te gaan, flink genoeg om een wit ros te aaien, niet te bang om een prins te redden.

Let others sing of knights and paladinsIn aged accents and untimely words.

Remember the Alamo

What if the [emperor's new] clothes really *were* invisible? What if they were spun from the most magical thread in the entire universe? And what if everyone was too stupid to see? Including the stupid little kid who became the hero of the story?