Quotes about Heroism

To talk of going down fighting like heroes in the face of certain defeat is not really heroic at all, but merely a refusal to face the future. The ultimate question for a responsible man to ask is not how he is to extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation is to live. It is only from this question, with its responsibility towards history, that fruitful solutions can come, even if for the time being they are very humiliating.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

You might be a hero. I say might because the choice is ultimately yours

I have prayed with the families and wept at the funerals of Hoosiers who did not shrink from 9-11 but grew into heroes whose names will forever be engraved in the heart of a grateful nation.

In brightest day, in blackest night,No evil shall escape my sight.Let those who worship evil's mightBeware my power, Green Lantern's light!

He saved others; himself he cannot save.

Mighty men of valor.

Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.

Firefighting - one of the few professions left that still makes house calls.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.