402 Quotes About Heroism

There is no heroism in sheep. They stand on the hill and go “Baa”, as they’re being slaughtered.

I am not a hero. Life has not required it of me.

Sometimes stories get on my nerves--especially the ones where unfair things keep happening to the hero over and over, for no reason at all, and he valiantly overcomes it all.Life isn't like that.Not every hero can stay valiant. Sometimes, they can't even stay a hero, so what does that make them? A failure? A pussy? A total failure jerkwad with no hope on the horizon save finding a cemetery and digging rectangles in the ground for the town drunk?

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.

Duty comes in many forms; at times duty to country may conflict with duty to family. Yet, with a lucid mind the guises can be torn away and in the end, duty becomes but one, and that duty is to value justice above everything--to do what is right not because someone ordains it, but because the heart which is the seat of truth decrees it so.

This is another blow. But we're actually walking a little taller because of the heroism at some of our hospitals.

The transcript really doesn't give you a sense of the heroism on that flight. I would like to have (the tape) released.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity....

Everything before then was written off as savagery or barbarism. Any story that involved heroism was about white people.