Quotes About Heroism

I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died...every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.

not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.

Today the economic development of Armenia is as important as victory in the war was yesterday. Our battle has moved from the field of blood and heroism, to the economic field.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

Firemen never die, they just burn forever in the hearts of the people whose lives they saved.

You don't have to have special skills to be a hero. You just have to do what's right, despite the cost.

Sometimes stories get on my nerves--especially the ones where unfair things keep happening to the hero over and over, for no reason at all, and he valiantly overcomes it all. Life isn't like that. Not every hero can stay valiant. Sometimes, they can't even stay a hero, so what does that make them? A failure? A pussy? A total failure jerkwad with no hope on the horizon save finding a cemetery and digging rectangles in the ground for the town drunk?

Wasn't it heroic enough, just staying alive when life got this hard?

Sick and disoriented, I'm able to form only one thought: Peeta Mellark just saved my life.

Katniss, the girl who was on fire.

I volunteer!" I gasp. "I volunteer as tribute!

How do you get places?" "I go around saving attractive girls," he says. "Obviously.

There is salvation only for the brave.

I stand on the shoulders of heroines who never sought public acclaim but served as inspirations to the generations that came after them.

This was basically the first time I got to act in action scenes, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds corny, but I think every actor would like to - at least once in his or her career - play the person who saves the entire world.

Be the hero of your children's story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers.

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

I will set aside the point that I see no special heroism in accumulating money, particularly if, in addition, the person is foolish enough to not even try to derive any tangible benefit from the wealth (aside from the pleasure of regularly counting the beans).

Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost. Patrocles does not strike us as a hero because of his accomplishments (he was rapidly killed) but because he preferred to die than see Achilles sulking into inaction. Clearly, the epic poets understood invisible histories. Also later thinkers and poets had more elaborate methods for dealing with randomness, as we will see with stoicism.

Sacrifice for the sake of the group is behind the notion of heroism:

Read nothing from the past one hundred years; eat no fruits from the past one thousand years; drink nothing from the past four thousand years (just wine and water); but talk to no ordinary man over forty. A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.