Top 381 Heroism Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.
Duke is a character who believes that heroism and the Robin mantle can exist entirely separate from Batman himself.
... many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.
'The Dovekeepers' is a compelling, beautifully written novel that combines history and fiction into a timeless story of survival and heroism.
You picked the right road, even though it is the most difficult. That is the essence of heroism. (p. 326)
I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.
The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.
At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never recriminate.
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 you do for the good of others.
It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.
Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.
History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?
I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . .
Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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.
I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.
[On gay ban in the military:] Heroism, I believe, is a trait that does not know race, color, creed, sex, or sexual orientation.
Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.
The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.
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 be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.
The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama, competition, camaraderie & heroism
There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.
I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.
In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.
Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.
There are people to whom heroism under fire comes naturally and seemingly without effort, but Patton was not one of them.
I'm not a vindictive person. But I do want to shine a light on human frailty and heroism in equal measure.
I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times.
It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.
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 accident.
I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.
The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting.
Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.
Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they becomes its advocates.
Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?
True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.
There is only one way fit for a man - Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.
Heroism is about taking an action which represents a breakthrough, and then assuming full responsiblity for it, even if it's a failure.
Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany.
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 of their patients.
When you have to spread heroism across too many players, you don't get to really dig deep into each of them as much as you'd want to.
War was a way of life for Americans in the early forties. Heroism was expected.
I love UFC, vigilante films, and any acts of merciless heroism.
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism
Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.
Is society debasing the idea of heroism by using it to describe anyone who makes people feel good about themselves?
There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.
You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.
