Quotes About Heroism

How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the small hours of the morning, looking up into the absence of light, remembering absent friends. Sometimes in those little hours I think about the horizon. You have to establish the horizon. You have to mark the white. A simple enough act, you might say, but any act that re-makes the world is heroic. Or so I've come to believe.

After that we're going to be heroes. Not because we want to, but because there are no other options.

There's a thine line between being a hero and being a memory.

If life is a poem, be the poet. If life is a story, be the author. If life is an adventure, be the hero. To live any other way is a waste of this experience we call life.

What is a Man without his heroic deeds?

By my love and my hope I beseech you - do not forsake hero in your soul!

Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy.

I know it's been tough. But we're terribly proud of you, you know." "For what?" She says blowing her nose. "I failed, Dad. Most people think I shouldn't have even tried." "Just for carrying on, really. Sometimes, my darling girl, that's heroic in itself.

Stiu ca ti-a fost greu. Dar sa stii ca suntem tare mandri de tine. - Pentru ce? se mira ea. - Pentru simplul fapt ca n-ai abandonat. Uneori, fetito, si asta e un gest eroic.

Behind every act of altruism, heroism, and human decency you'll find either selfishness or stupidity.

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. –RALPH WALDO EMERSON

We're on our way to rescue a queen, overthrow an evil wizard, and win back a country. Care to join us? - Wolverine (Doomwar #1)

According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly, or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too permanent for my liking.

A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

Los valores solo se adquieren a base de renuncias y sacrificios sin necesidad de publicarlos. El esfuerzo sin espectáculo es más heroico que el brillante y ruidoso. El

el camino de la heroica renunciación que el destino le ordenaba recorrer de rodillas.

Por mucha tendencia o vocación de esperador que tenga, y por mucha fibra heroica que habite en él, la espera de la llegada del ascensor se le hace infinita.

Tal vez el impulso heroico sea hoy en día algo completamente vulgar y corriente.

Heroism and ignominy both are part of our history. The only question is whether, having seen both, we can repent of the one and rejoice and be inspired by the other. Or whether we will let one of them tempt us so far away from the other that we have a deeply distorted view.

Die? Didn't you hear? SPARTAN's never die.

Individualization, ego formation, and heroism belong to the very life of the male group and are in fact its expressions.

More: she is something that cries out to be rescued, set free, and redeemed, and she demands that the man shall prove himself manly, not merely as the bearer of the phallic instrument of fertilization, but as a spiritual potency, a hero. She expects strength, cunning, resourcefulness, bravery, protection, and readiness to fight.

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?