Quotes About Heroism

We did not flinch but gave our lives to saveGreece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.

No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.

To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism.

All heroes are bold toward food.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

One must think like a hero merely to behave like a decent human being.

For if one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed. One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

That Beethoven was capable of producing the ultimate musical definition of heroism in this context is itself extraordinary, for he was able to evoke a dream of heroism that neither he nor his native Germany nor his adopted Vienna could express in reality. Perhaps we can only measure the heroism of the Eroica by the depth of fear and uncertainty from with it emerged.

Sybil Ludington

Jack leaped over the gate, his sword aflame. To vanquish his foe and rescue his love.

What is courage? its chorus asked--and the song answered, It is to give when hope is gone, when there is no chance that men may call you a hero, when you have tried and failed and rise to try again. It asked the same of friendship, answering that the friend stands beside you when you are right and all others despise you for it.

Ultimately the men who choose against violence, against death, do so because they want to live fully and well, because they want to know love. These are the men who are true heroes, the men whose lives we need to know about, honor, and remember.

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Bravery is good when the cause is good.

In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its outbreak. In private conversation he was wont to say that homicidal lunatics were well employed in killing each other, but that sensible men would keep out of their way while they were doing it. Fortunately this outlook, which is reminiscent of Bentham, has become rare in this age, which recognizes that heroism has a value independent of its utility. The Last Survivor of a Dead Epoch

I always thought that the badge a cop has was more like the shield that Captain America has. It's an obvious sign of good and something you'll protect other people with, but it will also protect you.

His was not, I could see now, the heroism of an Achilles. He was not a superman who waded invulnerably into the slaughter, single-handedly slaying the foe by myriads. He was just a man doing a job. A job whose primary attribute was self-restraint and self-composure, not for his own sake, but for those whom he led by his example.

The hero's journey can take place on a battlefield or in a cubicle. We can live it out amid public clamor or in the soundless vault between our ears. The demons we are dueling are always the same. They are our own fears of becoming who we are. No one who has ever lived—or ever will—has a journey like ours. And yet our journey is universal. It is every woman's and every man's.

I did not think them perfect; no man may be a hero to his valet or political consultant.

history makes us who we are, but we can make history, also, and that anyone can be a hero, if they just choose to be.

with one sweep of my arm, I push her behind me. ' I volunteer!' I gasp ' I volunteer as tribute

Of course, as a model for my magician Strange is far from perfect --he lacks the true heroic nature; for that I shall be obliged to put in something of myself.

I content myself with the fact that the general system of our trade is a system of selfishness, is not dictated by the high sentiments of human nature much less by the sentiments of love and heroism but is a system of distrust not of giving, but of taking advantage.

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.