Heroism Quotes

373 Heroism quotes by 280 unique authors

I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism consists in holding… — Marguerite Yourcenar
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its… — Octave Mirbeau
On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere. — Nancy Gibbs
Today the economic development of Armenia is as important as victory in the war was yesterday. Our battle has moved from the field of blood… — Vazgen Sargsyan
I'm saying to be a hero it means you step accross the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making… — Philip Zimbardo
None meet life honestly and few heroically. — Clarence Darrow
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they… — Ernest Renan
If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
Don't aim at any impossible heroisms. Strive rather to be quiet in your own sphere. Don't live in the cloudland of some transcendental heaven; do… — William Morley Punshon
The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is… — William James
It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were. — Lawrence Durrell
No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
This may not be the path for everyone. But the trust of which we speak is not an act of heroism. it is an act… — Unknown Author
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism. — Michael Bay
I feel uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. Um, and,… — Chris Hayes
PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they… — Michael Arad
A true hero is not someone who thinks about doing what is right, but one that simply does what is right without thinking! — Kevin Heath
Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all around us. — Frank Warren
Faith is the heroism of the intellect. — Charles Henry Parkhurst
The less you demand total fulfillment from relationships, the more you can appreciate them for the beautiful tapestries they are, in which absolute and relative,… — John Welwood
We are moving away from the old idea of leadership -- leadership has less to do (now) with heroism. We don't look for... unblemished omnipotent… — Walter Truett Anderson
Heroism is not blind courage: it is selfless action. it is knowing the odds are stacked against you, but feeling that you must do what… — John Baldoni

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