Heroism Quotes

373 Heroism quotes by 280 unique authors

American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and… — Rosa DeLauro
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining… — John Lennon
Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality – there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you… — David Foster
The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering… — Henry David Thoreau
Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people… — Nnamdi Azikiwe
Calculation never made a hero. — John Henry Newman
To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism. — Sylvester Stallone
The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without… — Pericles
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as it… — John le Carre
My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA. — Malala Yousafzai
I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative arts, folklore, advertising,… — Rene Magritte
He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in… — Unknown Author
Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful to labor, or… — Robert Green Ingersoll
An act of heroism, of extraordinary courage, the grandeur of it, won't easily inspire us to act in imitation, but it can inspire us to… — John McCain
Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the… — Stanislaw Lem
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… — Russell Banks
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.... — Natalie Clifford Barney
Hence the importance of patience in the New Testament, which becomes the basic constituent of Christianity, more central even than humility: the power to wait,… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the… — William James
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… — Gretel Ehrlich
Feminist art... will take the great human themes – love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself – and render them fully human. — Andrea Dworkin
If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd… — Thomas Nagel
I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you’re somehow able to look at that him… — John Jeremiah Sullivan
I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism. — Abebe Bikila

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