Quotes About Heroism

You learned a good lesson about fighting as a team. Remember that no warrior needs to be a hero. The most heroic actions take more than one cat.

Hollyleaf leaped forward at the final moment, taking Hawkfrost's death blow and saving Ivypool's life.

And so, as the bombs fell around him, this heroic British undertaker sat in his own grave, wearing his swimming trunks and a helmet, drinking a nice up of tea.

Here was heroism, but here, too, was mounted suicide in full-dress costume.

En su cerrada mollera no entraban ni podían entrar otras luces sobre el santo ejercicio de la caridad; no comprendía que una palabra cariñosa, un halago, un trato delicado y amante que hicieran olvidar al pequeño su pequeñez, al miserable su miseria, son heroísmos de más precio que el bodrio sobrante de una mala comida.

Desde que te quiero -a su amigo decía-, no tengo miedo a nada, ni a los toros ni a los ladrones. Me siento valiente hasta al heroísmo, y ni la serpiente boa ni el león de la selva me harían pestañear.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.

I love to see heroes who fuel some kind of moral furnace inside them, who are driven to take on the evils of the world, despite the fact that the evils of the world are more powerful than them. And essentially can never be defeated, but they refuse to bow down. And in order to enjoy that aspect of the hero, you've got to put them through hell.

Heroism is heroism, regardless of the timeframe or the backdrop.

In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.

You don't have to be a Brad Pitt look-alike hero just to be courageous and help out your friends and come through when it really matters. I think everyone can sort of relate to that in some way, particularly back to people's school days.

I believe that when Crazy Horse was killed, something more than a man's life was snuffed out.

You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they've got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything you'll ever see on TV.

I was a callow boy, and then a man, good and bad. Now at last I'm the hero. I am the one to root for in the never-ending war story of our marriage.

Mantenerse en estado optimista las veinticuatro horas del día es un hecho heroico que nadie ensalza y a mí me llena de orgullo de tarde en tarde.

We praise heroes as though they are rare, and yet we are always ready to blame another man for lack of heroism.

The dead of an army become automatically heroes like the dead of the Church become Martyrs.

Heroism began where politics stopped.

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On September 11, 2001, America suffered an unimaginable tragedy and witnessed the incredible heroism of hundreds of first responders who rushed into the World Trade Center to save lives.

T. E. Lawrence was far more than a glamorous, swashbuckling, heroic figure in flowing robes mounted on a camel, leading the Arab tribes against the Turks in World War One.