Quotes about Heroism

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

Unnecessary suffering is masochistic rather than heroic.

suffer unnecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent lightnesses and contradictions - not the less difficult to achieve, because they have no earthly chronicle or audience - done every day in nooks and corners, and in little households, and in men's and women's hearts - any one of which might reconcile the sternest man to such a world, and fill him with belief and hope in it

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Where is Shelby, whom you left to the mercies of Elias in the desert, and where is Tate whom you abandoned in the mountains? Where are the ladies, ah the fair and tender ladies with whom you danced at the governor's ball when you were a hero anointed with the blood of the enemies of the republic you'd elected to defend? -Cormac mcCarthy, Blood Meridian

not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

Sometimes the most courageous thing a man can do is run back across the battlefield and rescue the wounded.

Heroism, generally, is totally out of place in the spiritual life, until we grow to the point at which it would never be thought of as heroism anyway.

But this is an age for spiritual heroes—a time for men and women to be heroic in faith and in spiritual character and power.