Quotes About Heroism

El verdadero heroísmo es notablemente sobrio, muy poco dramático. No es la urgencia de sobrepasar a los demás a cualquier costo, sino la urgencia de servir a los demás a cualquier costo». —ARTHUR ASHE

a broad-shouldered, rather fleshy individual, without any hat, whose grizzled head under that suspended light seemed to Sam the largest human head he had ever seen. It was the head of a hydrocephalic dwarf; but in other respects its owner was not dwarfish. In other respects its owner had the normally plump, rather unpleasantly plump figure of any well-to-do-man, whose back has never been bent nor his muscles hardened by the diurnal heroism of manual labour.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history

No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.

You'll never know a hero until you meet the best friend you have ever had. We find a bit of ourselves in the person we confide most in, a promising reassurance that we, individually, all need to be reminded that to someone out there, we are a hero too.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.

How am I supposed to prove myself a hero if nobody will give me a chance?

If you put your life on the line on a daily basis to help protect and save lives, you are a story of inspiration.

I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

A man of your valor deserves not another breath.

The noblest life is the one laid down for another.

Danny could see it in their faces when they shook Steve's hand—they'd have preferred him dead. Death allowed for the illusion of heroism. The maimed turned that illusion into an uncomfortable odor.

Sam, there comes a time when the world no longer needs heroes. And then the true hero knows to walk away.

It's much juicier to play somebody a little more evil than Dudley Do-Right.

Yes, you know Luke Skywalker isn't going to die in issue #3. But that doesn't mean you've seen every Luke Skywalker story there is to tell.

Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

I've been feeling rather bloodthirsty lately, and saving the world seemed a good way to use it.

They knew that if, as a child, you do pluck up the courage to hit a bully, it is an act of true heroism--as great as that of Beowulf in his old age.

Out of every one-hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior and he will bring the others back. HERACLITUS

He had ambitions on my behalf and more or less at my expense. This is the custom among men who have failed to be heroes; their sons must prove that the seed was not impoverished.

So we push the boundaries: we stay up far longer than is natural. We try to do too many tasks at the same time. We drive faster than is safe. Most of the time we manage okay. We might even be rewarded and praised for our heroic efforts. But when things go wrong and we fail, then this same behavior is blamed and punished.

But that's done now," Jason said, shaking his head. "No girl who plays the role of a hero dates a guy who uses her. She knows who she is. She just forgot for a little while." Part Two A Character