Heroism Quotes
373 quotes by 289 authors
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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others…
— Arthur Ashe
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
— Abigail Adams
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Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
— John Barth
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
— Jean Baudrillard
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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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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…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
— Kathryn Bigelow
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
— Bertolt Brecht
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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.
— Geraldine Brooks
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And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
— Joseph Campbell
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Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
— Albert Camus
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How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
— Maya Angelou
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and…
— Lewis Mumford
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I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our country doesn't depend on the heroism of every citizen. But all of us should be worthy of the sacrifices made on our behalf.
— John McCain
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The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Heroism Quotes
289 authors contributed a total of 373 Heroism Quotes, led by these top contributors: