Heroism famous quotes
05-09-2025
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I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.
-- Abebe Bikila -
Heroism does not require spiritual maturity.
-- Abel Hermant -
Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
-- Albert Camus -
If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
-- Alfred P. Sloan -
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.
-- Angus Wilson -
There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.
-- Brandon Mull -
For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example and precept can still be drawn.
-- C. V. Wedgwood -
We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.
-- C. V. Wedgwood -
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
-- Charles de Gaulle -
Faith is the very heroism and enterprise of intellect. Faith is not a passivity, but a faculty. Faith is power, the material of effect. Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great work men of history have been men who believed like giants.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst -
Faith is the heroism of the intellect.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst -
Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality – there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth – actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.
-- David Foster -
By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism
-- David Gemmell -
Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?
-- Erich Segal -
The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.
-- Ernest Renan -
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 once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.
-- Ernest Renan -
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama, competition, camaraderie & heroism
-- Fred Lebow -
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.
-- Gene Siskel -
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -
Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.
-- George A. Sheehan -
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 chamber, battleships go down with their guns still firing when their decks are awash.
-- George Orwell -
The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.
-- Georges Lefebvre -
Genuine bravery occurs when you least expect it, and when, in fact, you're quite oblivious of it. Sometimes heroism happens when you press on; other times when you let go. Once in a while, it happens when you do a little dance all your own.
-- Gerald Hausman -
September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.
-- Geraldine Brooks -
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.
-- Gretel Ehrlich -
Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.
-- Havelock Ellis -
Mostly the subject of the photograph, which can be anyone really, coming down the street - someone that has no idea. "Heroism" in photography, just like in a novel, is for everyone.
-- Hedi Slimane -
When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.
-- Heinrich Heine -
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 -
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.
-- Jacques Maritain -
Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.
-- James Geary -
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
-- Jean Baudrillard -
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 -
Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.
-- Jim Butcher -
In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.
-- Joaquin Phoenix -
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?
-- Kathe Kollwitz -
Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
-- Kathryn Bigelow -
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.
-- Kathryn Bigelow -
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
-- Lawrence Durrell -
Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.
-- Leif Enger -
Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.
-- Lillian Wald -
I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust. It is one of the effects, perhaps one of the functions of literature to arouse desire, and I can discover no grounds for saying that sexual pleasure should not be among the objects of desire which literature presents to us, along with heroism, virtue, peace, death, food, wisdom, God, etc.
-- Lionel -
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 wealthy. It's always so.
-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine -
My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
-- Malala Yousafzai -
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 to that extremity throughout their lives.
-- Marguerite Yourcenar -
Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.
-- Max Beerbohm -
... many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.
-- Max Ehrmann -
Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.
-- Michael Bay -
Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.
-- Michio Kaku -
On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.
-- Nancy Gibbs -
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity....
-- Natalie Clifford Barney -
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne -
I pay tribute to the endless heroism of youth.
-- Nelson Mandela -
The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without shame or fear. It is a sort of heroism.
-- Patrick Swift -
What makes a hero truly great is that they never despair.
-- Roy Thompson -
The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting.
-- Stephanie Zacharek -
The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.
-- Susan Faludi -
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
-- Thomas Carlyle -
I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.
-- Thor Heyerdahl -
His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them.
-- William Manchester -
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 battlefields.
-- William Manchester -
I don't know the fitness that Donald Trump possesses to be commenting on other people's heroism. The most lethal foe that he is ever faced in his own life, I think was Rosie O'Donnell.
-- James Rosen -
Heroism isn't a one time thing: Live Heroically.
-- Jim MacLaren -
I think heroism comes in different packages. The superhero package is one that we're familiar with.
-- Deborah Ann Woll -
There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.
-- Romain Rolland -
In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.
-- Roswell Dwight Hitchcock -
Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
-- Salman Khan -
Duke is a character who believes that heroism and the Robin mantle can exist entirely separate from Batman himself.
-- Scott Snyder -
Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.
-- Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre -
Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany.
-- William Joyce
