402 Quotes About Heroism

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

Luthiel: I cannot change what will happen. I can only change how I act in the face of it.

The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.

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

I just wonder… Isn’t it better to start as a monster and become a hero? Isn’t that what creates belief? The idea that someone can change?

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

Do what you will. I do not fear death.

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

What is heroic is not making life any harder than it has to be.