Quotes About Heroism

When you talk about heroines and heroes, at the top of the list has got to be the single moms of America.

When a timid mouse who is a mom needs to be a hero, she does it, because that's what moms do.

Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.

I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun.

Be a hero. Always say, 'I have no fear.' Tell this to everyone - 'Have no fear.'

Make it a goal to be somebody's hero.

Bruce Wayne/Batman: A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat on a young boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended.

By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism

Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

All peace-loving women shut up when they sense they have stepped onto Guy Turf. Guy Turf is a murky realm of ego and pride and chivalry and testosterone and heroism.

There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.

I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism.

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

Act as if you are the hero of the movie we call life.

Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes.

If negative meant positive we'd be heroes.

One man suffers to save many.

First you be a hero and then raise your child to be a hero.

Heroes don't have friends, they have fans.

Starting and profitably running a business is not just some achievement, it is heroism.