402 Quotes About Heroism

Sometimes heroics revolted him; they seemed like an insult to the soldier who weighed the risks of the situation and made calm, cunning decisions based on experience and imagination, the sort of unshowy soldiering that didn’t win medals but wars.

But I think I understand now what Shackleton said yesterday, how hero is not always doing something grand. It's when things get so bad, and you keep on anyway.

An unhappy land, then, is one whose citizens no longer know where duty lies, and seek a charismatic leader who tells them what to do. Which, if I remember correctly, is what Hitler promulgated in Mein Kampf.

One may demand heroism only of a single person and that is oneself.

I’m not a hero,” Oliver insisted. “Not without mask and uniform,” Mrs. Chun countered. “Now you have those things.

But the days of true heroism are over, when a citizen fought for his country like a Fabricius or a Washington, and then returned to his farm to let his virtuous fervour run in a more placid, but not less salutary, stream.

not every praise deserves your full attention

You are no greater than the friends you keep, the books you read, the heroes you admire, and the obstacles you overcome.

Heroes, I’ve learned, don’t always wear white.Sometimes they come from the darkness, shadows among shadows.