Quotes About Heroism

Firemen: your worst day is our everyday.

You know, we're each the hero of our own story and we perceive what's going on around us, and especially in a relationship, from the kind of viewpoint of, 'Well, this is my story, and I'm the hero of that, and I justify what I do around it.'

Thermopylae – The Battle that Changed the World

The Spider Hero lived his life by this maxim: He who possesses great power is burdened also with great responsibility. —

Vladimir Poutine est d'autant plus martial qu'il n'a jamais connu la guerre. S'il aime à projeter l'image d'un héros viril, c'est qu'il est hanté par elle.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual can attain is to know how to face ridicule; better still, to know how to make oneself ridiculous and not to shrink from the ridicule.

featured an eight-year-old boy who saved his friend who was choking to death. When asked where he learned the Heimlich, he said, "It was on a poster on The Simpsons." True story.

His life changed history. His courage changed lives.

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

Distinguished Intelligence Cross, the highest honor bestowed by the CIA. The award goes to clandestine service members for "a voluntary act or acts of extraordinary heroism involving the acceptance of existing dangers with conspicuous fortitude and exemplary courage.

The GRS operators enjoyed repeated showings of the blood-soaked story of fearless King Leonidas and his tiny force of Spartan soldiers, outnumbered ten thousand to one by the Persian army at Thermopylae in 480 BC.

He wondered what drove Dave Tarantino into that brick oven to crawl through jagged rubble, flip onto his back, and leg-press a load of burning debris, knowing that it might crash down on top of him. Dave Thomas decided that he'd never seen a more courageous act. But it worried him—he feared that Dave Tarantino

What a shame for a man like him to be born during peacetime. If he'd been born only a few decades earlier, he'd have worn the mantle of hero,

In some significant aspects, heroes are born, not made. Heroic qualities flow through a person's veins like an undercurrent, ready to be translated into action.

Men who have died in battle are rarely good to look upon. No matter how splendid their appearance at the apex of heroism, when the soul has fled it takes all grace and beauty with it. Bowels empty, mouths gape, bellies swell, dead eyes gleam fish-belly white. Nothing visible remains of glory. In the tents of death all men belong to the same tribe.

If one who slays one is a murderer then he who slays a thousand is not a hero,' said Lalu.

The generous one-dimensional desire to be a hero, to 'do the right thing', needs to be rounded out with the equally generous willingness to restrain apparent heroism when it might itself bring disaster.

Mercants have a gift for obsession. It's led to prison sentences, epic heroism, great works of art and madhouses. Choose your path.

All illustrate the "theory of courage," which Tolkien called "the great contribution of early Northern literature," meaning both Icelandic and Old English literature. It is a "creed of unyielding will": The heroes refuse to give up even when they know the monsters—evil—will win. For that is the big difference between Snorri's Ragnarok and the Christian Doomsday. Odin and the human army of Valhalla do not win.

She could run. There's her dad's voice in her head, saying, Take care of yourself, sweetie. And there's her mon's voice in her head, saying, You're a hero, act like it.

How do they manage to go on living?.....By loving life. And-in spite of everything-by loving God. By having enough faith to start over again and again; enough faith to risk having our hearts break all over again. That's the true meaning of faith. It's the deepest kind of heroism.

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat

It is not true that men never change; they change for the worse, as well as for the better. It is not true they are ungrateful; more often the benefactor rates his favors higher than their worth; and often too he does not allow for circumstances. If few men have the moral force to resist impulses, most men do carry within themselves the germs of virtues as well as of vices, of heroism as well as of cowardice. Such is human nature — education and circumstances do the rest.

Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.