Quotes About Heroism

And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.

Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!

Life waits patiently for true heroes. It is dangerous when those aspiring to be heroes cannot wait until they find themselves.

The bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what it is in their power to improve, but do not imagine themselves to be saviours. In their humble struggle is true heroism.

What's a hero if not for its journey.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is like a hero, to have played different comedic roles. She gets sexier, funnier, and better with time.

Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously guilt-laden man. He was drenched in a sense of shame about his being featured as the preeminent leader of African-American culture and the civil rights movement.

The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.

When Captain America knocks at your door, you answer.

For years, I tried to resist the hero label.

For a real knight, rescuing maidens would be an everyday event." ... "Perhaps a true knight saves himself for the right maiden

I'm not the hero, Mac. Never have been. Never will be. Let us be perfectly clear: I'm not the antihero, either, so quit waiting to discover my hidden potential. There's nothing to redeem me.

Sometimes the most heroic action you can take looks a lot like inaction to the rest of the world. Sometimes the hardest, longest walk is the one the white-hat takes offstage.

I almost die a lot. Superheroes do.

I don't reply. Sometimes the most heroic action you can take looks a lot like inaction to the rest of the world. Sometimes the hardest, longest walk is the one the white-hat takes offstage.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Modesty alone doesn't prove a man a hero. But it's incontrovertible that immodesty makes him a bore.

I have often observed that the state of motherhood can turn quite ordinary females into heroines . . .

Don't tell me women aren't the stuff of heroes.

Comme disait El-Hallâj : «Que nul ne boive le vin s'il n'est pas un héros ; s'il n'a abandonné le sommeil, et que ses paupières ne se ferment plus. » L'énigme du Soufisme, c'est qu'on désigne la chose par le prix qu'elle vaut ; que la valeur céleste s'exprime en termes de sacrifices terrestres.

To be a true hero you must be a true Christian. To sum up then, heroism is largely based on two qualities- truthfulness and unselfishness, a readiness to put one's own pleasures aside for that of others, to be courteous to all, kind to those younger than yourself, helpful to your parents, even if helpfulness demands some slight sacrifice of your own pleasure. . .you must remember that these two qualities are the signs of Christian heroism.

Video games don't make people violent, but maybe they falsely give you the idea that you can be a hero.

Video games don't make people violent, but maybe they falsely give you the idea that you can be a hero.

THE GREAT HEROISM OF A SOBER LIFE is getting up in the morning and facing the day, greeting others, going out into the world with something to give. When we are in the grave of our own thoughts, feeling like we will never be able to crawl back out, our fingernails packed with dirt, how is it that sometime later we can be laughing, and laughing hard?