Heroism Quotes

373 Heroism quotes by 280 unique authors

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for? — J M Coetzee
Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an… — Isabel Allende
You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after… — Libba Bray
when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you. — Mariah Carey
In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson… — Stephen Ambrose
Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe… — N.D. Wilson
There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their… — Iain Banks
Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up. — Jim Butcher
In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic. — Jim Butcher
It's not just children who need heroes. — Tamora Pierce
Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism,… — Mark Doty
Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time. — Jim Butcher
Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can… — Albert Camus
Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being… — Robert A. Heinlein
Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who… — Piers Anthony
I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today. — David Foster Wallace
This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero. — Angela Carter
We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That… — Anais Nin
So many misconceptions surround the notion of heroism. Far too many categorize a hero as a champion on the battlefield, a commander of legions, a… — Brandon Mull
True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or… — David Foster Wallace
On the night he died - he was twenty-seven - Basquiat had been planning to see a Run-DMC show. When people asked him what his… — Jay-Z
The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the… — David Foster Wallace
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… — Theodore Dalrymple

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