Best 321 quotes in «heroism quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

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.

This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

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.

We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.

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

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

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.

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!

Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.

Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

What keeps India safe really is the heroism of millions of poor Indians who every day reject the allure of terrorism. What keeps India safe is just the courage of poor Indians, not the actions of its government.

After September 11th, I never much liked the trend of everyone and his brother wearing the hats and jackets of the NYPD and FDNY. Only the people who do the job should get to wear the hat. Would you wear someone else's Medal of Honor? Yes, it's a tribute, and sincere tribute is always appropriate for these brave people. But wearing their symbols is also rubbing off a piece of heroism that isn't yours.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.