Quotes About Heroism

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

he's stuck with them, so he makes the best of a bad situation. he's a hero because he makes something good out of a life he doesn't want.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.

So it came to the morning of 21 October 1805, a day that would live for ever in the minds of those who were there.

day that lives still, in the annals of the Royal Navy.

Villeneuve's flagship.

The ancients saw in the historical or mythical hero, in Alexander or in Achilles, the standard of human life. The great man was paradigmatic, his existence exemplary. The patron saint of the democrat, on the other hand, is the vulgar man. The democratic model must be strictly lacking in every admirable quality.

Fair Maiden Lilliard lies under this stane, Little was her stature but great was her fame; Upon the English loons she laid many thumps, And when her legs were cuttied off she fought upon her stumps.

Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Ah,the pure shine of a few moments of heroism, high courage, and derring-do! In its light we genuflect before the Hero, we bask inthe warmth of his Deeds, we tout him, shout him praises, deify him, and, in short, make of him what no mortal could ever be.

Dünyada bir tane kahraman bulunmal?. Tek ba??na ya?ayanlara cesaret vermek için.

I say to you in all sadness of conviction, that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

Hay que ser héroe o santo. En el término medio no está la sabiduría, sino la vulgaridad

Routine is the death to heroism.

Paul Andrew Hutton, director de la Western History Association, decía: «Crockett se ha vuelto parte de la autoidentificación como estadounidenses, y sugerir que no pereció en el verdadero estilo Hollywood era un puñetazo a sus frágiles psiques», y remataba diciendo que la versión heroica «ilustra el proceso de la fabricación comercial de un h

Firemen are my favorite color.' Jesus!

Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.

All those square-jawed heroes of the old science fiction stories had it wrong. You can't save the world as we know it. I did what I could, and I did some good in the world. But you can't save the world without changing it.

Dragons and legends...It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.

Let us be heroes as well as monsters.

Miss Skylark once said it's heroic to make something beautiful out of a blank page," I say. "With art or words.