Heroism Quotes

Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress.

The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts.

You are a Hero. Be Heroic. Always.

One murder makes a villain millions a hero.

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

A hero is a matter of perspective. The only sure thing in war is casualties. Ideology, patriotism and religious zeal all fuel heroic notions.

Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner.

This last best luck of all: that earth should gape for me when my great deeds were ended.

Better an unsung hero than a fallen star.

As a general man I tried watching movies, playing sports, going to picnics and other entertainments but I still got bored, then I tried heroism and now I am hero, and I never get bored.

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

There are those who hold first rankers and there are those who are heroes.

All these were honoured in their generations and were the glory of their times.

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.

I guess a little bit hero is enough. A little bit hero is all anyone really needs to be.

Heroes are more than just stories, they’re people. And people are complicated; people are strange. Nobody is a hero through and through, there’s always something in them that’ll turn sour... you’ll learn it one day. There are no heroes, only villains who win.

Acts of heroism are easy—becoming a hero is a bitch.

Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die.

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.

A hero is a person who, without a second thought, simply does the right thing because his conscience cannot live with any other choice.

Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.

They want a hero to worship, and a villain to condemn. They have found their villain today, and they would cherish it for as long as they can, till another one comes along.

I decided to do the easy task of changing situations and conditions by being a hero, than staying back to do the difficult task of changing people by being just a man.

Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.

The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto.

It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we all destroy it -- in our own small ways -- by every choice we make and every tiniest action resulting from that c

For what are in reality the things we call ‘Wisdom,’ ‘Virtue,’ ‘Heroism,’ ‘sublime hours,’ and ‘great moments of life,’ but the moments when we have more or less issued forth from ourselves, and have been able to halt, be it only for an instant, on the step of one of the eternal gates whence we see that the faintest cry, the most colourless thought, and most nerveless gestures do not drop into nothingness; …

Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.

Rostov kept thinking about that brilliant feat of his, which, to his surprise, had gained him the St. George Cross and even given him the reputation of a brave man - and there was something in it that he was unable to understand. "So they're even more afraid than we are!" he thought. "So that's all there is to so-called heroism? And did I really do it for the fatherland? And what harm had he done, with his dimple and his light blue eyes? But how frightened he was! He thought I'd kill him. Why should I kill him? My hand faltered. And they gave me the St. George Cross. I understand nothing, nothing!

Do what you will. I do not fear death.

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Friends, we have a hero living among us.

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.

People become followers of the God because of his fear, but they become a fan of a hero because of his work.

You will have relatively less problems to solve, if you don't confuse problems with inconveniences.

It is not triumph which defines a man, but tragedy. Triumph always brings out the best in men, but tragedy shows us what we are made of.

If the only one who can kill an angel can’t do it, then who can?’ It’s a good question, one that takes me a minute to come up with an answer. ‘Obadiah West can. Him and his freedom fighters. I’m just a teenager.’‘History is filled with teenagers who lead the fight. Joan of Arc. Okita Soji, the samurai. Alexander the Great. They were all teenagers when they began leading their armies. I think we’re back to those times again, kid.

Heroes may die but they doesn't get tired.

You can survive without artistry, but you cannot live without artistry.

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.

when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.

Launching a turnaround takes courage. I cannot measure that and so it is not going to be included in my analysis, but behind the moments of change there are always a few people within these societies who have decided to try to make a difference.

Vanye: You're asking me to kill you.Luthiel: I'm asking you to save her.

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.

One of the forms of psychological heroism is the willingness to tolerate anxiety and uncertainty in the pursuit of our values - whether these values be work goals the love of another human being the raising of a family or personal growth.

My whole life, I prepared to come down in order to save the world above.. Now I have to ascend to save the world below..

There is a huge difference between a coward, and a hero. Cowards never learns from their mistakes. Like many, he masquerades as a dragon, but is a mere drunken fool, blinded by his own pride, and foolishness. And like many, cowards love inflicting pain upon the innocent. Like an ostrich, cowards hides underneath the sand, blocking all kinds of disturbances, critisisms towards them. That is not the case of heroes. Heroes on the other hand learns from their mistakes. Unlike a coward, a hero never commits the same mistakes again, and hates inflicting pain upon the innocent. They need not be blamed by others; they blame themselves, even for somethings that seem so little. By doing so, they learn from even the smallest of mistakes, and later on achieves a reward beyond imagining.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer.

In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that.

Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves.

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

The world needs heroes. Be a hero and build your part of the world.

I think, honestly, the film industry is eating up comics characters at such a fast pace, and spewing them out as so much unspeakable, stench-y, crap. I mean, I think people are going to get pretty sick of the comics product of superhero, per se. Super-heroism seems to be so visceral for these times. Nobody needs a big clunky guy to throw cars about. You know, we’ve got drunks in town here that can do that. We don’t need that kind of superhero. What we need is a super-sage. We need a genuine group of wise people. We need to become wise. That’s the job of tomorrow; becoming wise, and integrated, and understanding.