Heroism Quotes

373 Heroism quotes by 280 unique authors

However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery. — Ernest Renan
The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense… — Erich Fromm
In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a… — Jean Giraudoux
You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express. — Marya Mannes
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms. — Seneca the Younger
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win… — Martial
To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture… — George Orwell
Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies. — George Santayana
... the heroism of the average mother. Ah! When I think of that broad fact, I gather hope again for poor humanity; and this dark… — Charles Kingsley
The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic. — Elbert Hubbard
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or… — James A. Baldwin
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not… — Alfred North Whitehead
Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise. — Max Beerbohm
A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns… — Aristide Briand
Heroism does not require spiritual maturity. — Abel Hermant
Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial… — Christopher McDougall
We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
... many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. — Max Ehrmann
His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on… — William Manchester
His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. — William Manchester
The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong. — Susan Faludi
The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more… — Irwin Edman

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