Quotes About Heroism

When you have to spread heroism across too many players, you don't get to really dig deep into each of them as much as you'd want to.

What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.

Brave men die in battle.

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

There is only one way fit for a man - Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.

Perhaps the final hour is come I have left no testament Only a pen, for my mother I am no hero in an age without heroes I just want to be a man.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

For there is one thing we must never forget... the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards.

A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.

It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.

I always loved Ponch, man. It was so much fun to be him, to put on my duds and get on that bike and bust the bad guys and help out the kids. And get the babes.

She calls it relational heroism—that moment when every muscle and nerve in your body is screaming to do the same old, but through raised consciousness, insight, discipline, and grace, you lift yourself off your accustomed track and deliberately place yourself on another track.

Then there was Micah Jenkins, the Captain of Troop K, a gentle and courteous South Carolinian, on whom danger acted like wine. In action he was a perfect gamecock.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see everyday, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Almost without exception, they are men who dreamed of athletic heroism as children; becoming umpires was their compromise with their own lack of talent.

The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!