Best 321 quotes in «heroism quotes» category

I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.

I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism consists in holding to that extremity throughout their lives.

I think heroism comes in different packages. The superhero package is one that we're familiar with.

... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, allows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate heroisms, "immortal longings.

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

It's thematic in my career, if you look at most of my choices. It is some level of exploration of maternal angst and maternal heroism.

I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

... many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . .

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.

Mostly the subject of the photograph, which can be anyone really, coming down the street - someone that has no idea. "Heroism" in photography, just like in a novel, is for everyone.

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.

Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.

No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.

On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.

Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.

The bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what it is in their power to improve, but do not imagine themselves to be saviours. In their humble struggle is true heroism.

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

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 great, the fundamental need of any nation, any race, is for heroism, devotion, sacrifice; and there cannot be heroism, devotion, or sacrifice in a primarily skeptical spirit.

September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

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

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy... But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason... A love, inspired, it seems, by the gods, which it is impossible to fight, distort, destroy, or weaken. In fact, the attempts to destroy such loves only strengthen them. And to do nothing allows them to continue to grow at their natural pace, inexoribly, till this love becomes a wide and silent adoration.

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama, competition, camaraderie & heroism

The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.

There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.

The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.

The woman who led [downed airmen] was named Andrée De Jongh and her story - one of heroism and peril and astounding courage - became the inspiration for my novel.

This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.

Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.

War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men!

We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle.