Quotes About Heroism

Courage is a kind of salvation.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.

I shall never again admire a merely brave man.

Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.

The first of all qualities of a general is courage.

Courage is its own reward.

Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.

A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.

A hero can be afraid, but a hero never runs away.

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.

True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.

Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself.

It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.

To do something you're afraid of, especially for the sake of somebody else, is the very definition of courage.

Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

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

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

Imagine yourself acclaimed, a decorated national hero, an idol to millions of desperate people, then within six months, condemned to death by hanging.

Valor is the contempt of death and pain.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.