Heroism Quotes · Page 16

... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see…

— Elizabeth Bowen

To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murderers, adulterers, and hypocrites of every description.…

— Ronald Rolheiser

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may…

— George Eliot

In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.

— Brandon Mull

Heroism is heroism, regardless of the timeframe or the backdrop.

— Mark Waid

Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their…

— James A. Baldwin

“Sometimes in life we must fight not only without fear, but also without hope.”

— Alessandro Pertini

“Heroes are the most wanted and most needed people in the world.”

— Amit Kalantri

The will to be oneself is heroism

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You, But What You Can Do For.

— JohnFKennedy

“A hero lives forever for the ones who carry on.”

— Heather Dale

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity....

— Natalie Clifford Barney

“Sometimes stories get on my nerves--especially the ones where unfair things keep happening to the hero over and over, for no reason…

— Susan Vaught

The bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards…

— G.K. Chesterton

Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice-- sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.

— Aberjhani

Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating,…

— Jean Anouilh

This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

— Angela Carter

“Sacrifices will make you a martyr, victories will make you a hero.”

— Amit Kalantri

“The definition of a hero changes depending on the needs of the person with the dictionary.”

— Lindsay Buroker

To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love.…

— Sylvester Stallone

“The definition of a hero changes depending on the needs of the person with the dictionary. And of late I’ve become more…

— Lindsay Buroker

“Heroes may die but they doesn't get tired.”

— Amit Kalantri

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

— Bertolt Brecht

“If monkey became a man, then a man can become a hero.”

— Amit Kalantri