Quotes About Heroism

Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.

Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker last night personally rescued a woman from a burning building. Or as Fox News reported it, 'black man loots house, steals white woman.'

Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.

I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.

Good men don't become legends," he said quietly. "Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.

Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.

We're not used to seeing movies, especially with physical action, when it isn't the man who comes in to save the day.

I like women who are so real that they become as cowardly as certain men, as heroic as others and as sexual and dominating as men can be. And as you can imagine everything I do is [misunderstood].

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

He who, with strong passions, remains chaste--he who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and forgive--these are strong men, spiritual heroes.

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

It was peculiar to be standing so close to him. He's just a man, but still, what a thing to be Neil Armstrong!

Those are brave men," he told Ser Balon in admiration. "Let's go kill them.

He who says, "I know no fear," is no hero. No man knows courage unless he does know fear, and has that in him which is superior to fear, and conquers it.

No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.

Superman when he goes after someone is essentially not trying to beat them, he is trying to save them from themselves... You're looking at a God who walks amongst men!

The high courage of a single man is an army all by itself!

A man with courage has every blessing.

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.

Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]