Heroism Quotes · Page 8

In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that.

— John Green

The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own…

— Patrick Swift

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

— H. L. Mencken

A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by…

— Lord Chesterfield

He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero.…

— Roland Huntford

“Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one…

— Roman Payne

That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that…

— Lise Hand

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

— Lawrence Durrell

'The Dovekeepers' is a compelling, beautifully written novel that combines history and fiction into a timeless story of survival and heroism.

— Nina Tassler

Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.

— Jim Butcher

If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can…

— Thomas Nagel

Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where…

— Colin Hay

It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as…

— Thomas de Quincey

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

— George Eliot

First of all, what made him [Duke in "Zero Year"] captivating is this sense of somebody who wants to save the city…

— Scott Snyder

The future of modern society depends much more on the quiet heroism of the very few who are inspired by God. These…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“In the matter of spirit follow the Gods, in the matter of work follow the heroes.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Nitajisikia raha sana kufungwa kwa ajili ya matatizo watu.”

— Enock Maregesi

“Sometimes heroics revolted him; they seemed like an insult to the soldier who weighed the risks of the situation and made calm,…

— Iain M. Banks

We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it…

— Russell Banks

The great only seem great as we are on our knees; let us arise

— Desmoulins

Anil Kapoor is a star. He reinvented the characterisation of heroism.

— Vivek Agnihotri

“A certain way to have financial security in life is not enough savings, but enough ability.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Most of man's finest heroism is merely disguised necessity.”

— William Hurrell Mallock

“From this Legionary school a new man will have to emerge, a man with heroic qualities; a giant of our history to…

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu