Heroism Quotes - Page 3

• Nurture your mind with great thoughts

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Happiness, Hero, Inspiration

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.111, London : H. Colburn

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• Heroism is the antidote to evil.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Evil, Antidote

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• The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Departure, Biographies

  Joseph Campbell (1949). “The hero with a thousand faces”

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• Riddick is an antihero. He's the quintessential antihero. We all know how much I love antiheroes. It takes you 45 minutes in the movie just for Riddick to understand the word "heroism," let alone for anyone to hope that he can be heroic.

  Vin Diesel

  Heroic, Minutes, Antiheroes

  Source: ellisbenus.com

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• A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

  E. W. Howe

  War, Food, Hero

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• And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  God, Father, Men

  Thomas Babbington Macaulay, “Horatius”

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• Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man's frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever.

  William James

  Reality, Men, Hands

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.290, Harvard University Press

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• The hero is suffered to be himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.387

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• Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Intellect

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• The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  People, Height, Faces

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.342, Princeton University Press

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• Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Memorial Day, Courage, Hurt

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• If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Motivational, Hero, Classroom

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• I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  War, Believe, Kind

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• In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

  H. L. Mencken

  War, Hero, Soldier

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• To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

  George Eliot

  Women, Thinking, Winning

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.529, Broadview Press

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• Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.10, Broadway Books

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• I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.

  Abebe Bikila

  Sports, Country, Running

  "50 stunning Olympic moments: Abebe Bikila's 1960 marathon victory - in pictures" by Steven Bloor, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lasts, Prudent, Heroic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.39, Xist Publishing

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• There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

  John Keats

  Nature, Fire, Literature

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.37

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• What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

  Aldous Huxley

  Hero, Son, Thinking

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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• Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.

  Michael Bay

  Tragedy, Pearls, Harbors

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• To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

  Richard Thompson

  Guitar, Bravery, Insanity

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• American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Anniversary, War, Iraq

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• To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Sports, Hero, Past

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.314, Transaction Publishers

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• Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Mediocrity, Abstinence

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