402 Quotes About Heroism

Thermopylae; Gettysburg; Passchendaele; there is always, it seems, some magnificent bastard prepared to stand his ground.

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.

To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism.

Heroes don’t have the need to be known as heroes, they just do what heroes do because it is right and it must be done.

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

Finishing work makes you a man, finishing difficult work makes you a hero.

Sometimes in life we must fight not only without fear, but also without hope.

The most prominent members of civilizations are saints, heroes, and geniuses. The most prominent members of anti-civilizations are heretics, dictators, and sophists. The most prominent members of pseudo-civilizations are “trendsetters”, ”entertainers”, and “public intellectuals”.

And where do I go? Where on Earth does a person go when she realizes there's no place for her? You can't possibly try to fit in, because if you do, if you manage to carve out some beautiful niche of happiness for yourself, then one day it will be taken from you as surely and truly as the sun rises each morning.