Quotes About Heroism

You turned into a hero when I wasn't watching.

He's got courage, Alex said. Courage! Raoul bellowed. That coward almost kills him and--

A hero is merely a man never afraid of being called to heaven because he is certain he has done his duty, Nicholas. -Admiral Lord Nelson (fictional)

However, in modern civilization everything tends to suffocate the heroic sense of life. Everything is more or less mechanized, spiritually impoverished, and reduced to a prudent and regulated association of beings who are needy and have lost their self-suffiency. The contact between man's deep and free powers and the powers of things and of nature has been cut off; metropolitan life petrifies everything, syncopates every breath, and contaminates every spiritual "well.

Todo en la civilización moderna tiende a sofocar el sentimiento heroico de la vida. Todo tiende a la mecanización, al aburguesamiento, a la nivelación resuelta y prudente, a la fabricación de seres presos de sus necesidades y privados de toda autonomía

Un factor religioso es necesario como fondo para una verdadera concepción heroica de la vida: es necesario sentir en nosotros mismos la evidencia de que más allá de esta vida terrestre existe una vida más alta, ya que solamente quien siente de este modo posee una fuerza irrompible e indoblegable

The world doesn't stop, even when you've just saved it.", FADE by Kailin Gow

It isn't every day that you get to save the world.", FADE by Kailin Gow

I have, like, nuclear power, like a superhero, like Cyclops when he puts his glasses on.

James Bond is one of those heroes that all guys feel they could actually be like.

I saw myself as Joan of Arc.

I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!

I'd love to have played Joan of Arc. That would have been amazing.

I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson.

We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them.

Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all around us.

People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don't feel very much.

I'm not like that fellow who thought it a far, far better thing to trade his life for that of another. I'm nothing like him: I'd never volunteer to lay my head in the lap of Madame la Guillotine. No, that fellow was a hero and I'm not a hero at all.

But sound aloud the praises, and give the victor-crown To our noble-hearted Firemen, who fear not danger's frown.

Si l'humanité a été stupide pendant des millénaires, on ne s'explique pas comment elle a pu cesser de l'être, d'autant que ce fut dans un laps de temps relativement très court : et on se l'explique d'autant moins quand on observe avec quelle intelligence et quel héroisme elle a été stupide pendant si longtemps et avec quelle myopie philosophique et quelle décadence morale elle est devenue enfin "lucide" et "adulte".

Toute erreur doctrinale s'accompagne d'une erreur psychologique à l'égard de ceux qui en sont indemnes : l'athéisme par exemple se prend volontiers pour un héroïsme moral; il ne peut concevoir de théisme libre de toute faiblesse, de tout désir sentimental. Suspicion injuste, car on peut tout admettre par sentimentalité, l'inexistence de Dieu aussi bien que le contraire.

her life at Zzyzx to save the world. If she was needed again

A hero does not choose her trials. She steps into the darkness, then she faces what comes next.

I am, unfortunately, the Hero of Ages.