Quotes and Sayings About Heroism

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

#Country #Determination #Heroism

Heroism does not require spiritual maturity.
-- Abel Hermant

#Spiritual #Maturity #Heroism

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
-- Albert Camus

#Heroism #Difficult

If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
-- Alfred P. Sloan

#Hero #Heroism #Ends

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.
-- Angus Wilson

#Opportunity #People #Heroism

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Waiting #Heroism #Done

In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.
-- Brandon Mull

#Mean #Heroism #Doing The Right Thing

For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example and precept can still be drawn.
-- C. V. Wedgwood

#Past #Heroism #Example

We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.
-- C. V. Wedgwood

#Men #Numbers #Heroism

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
-- Charles de Gaulle

#Sacrifice #Humanity #Heroism

Faith is the very heroism and enterprise of intellect. Faith is not a passivity, but a faculty. Faith is power, the material of effect. Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great work men of history have been men who believed like giants.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Faith #Men #Heroism

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Heroism #Intellect

One part brave, three parts fool!
-- Christopher Paolini

#Brave #Heroism #Three

Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality – there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth – actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.
-- David Foster

#Reality #Gentleman #Heroism

By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism
-- David Gemmell

#Coward #Heroism #Definitions

Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?
-- Erich Segal

#Heroism #Quiet #Idealism

The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.
-- Ernest Renan

#Epic #Age #Heroism

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.
-- Ernest Renan

#Reflection #Men #Heroism

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Hero #Evil #Heroism

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Heroism #Literature #Hunger

The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama, competition, camaraderie & heroism
-- Fred Lebow

#Drama #Competition #Heroism

I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.
-- Gene Siskel

#Movie #Heroism #Able

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#Hero #Heroism #Scene

Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.
-- George A. Sheehan

#Race #Heroism #Marathon

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture chamber, battleships go down with their guns still firing when their decks are awash.
-- George Orwell

#Gun #Heroism #Mouths

The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.
-- Georges Lefebvre

#History #Heroism #Events

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.
-- Gerald Hausman

#Letting Go #Bravery #Heroism

September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.
-- Geraldine Brooks

#People #September 11 #Heroism

The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.
-- Gretel Ehrlich

#Art #Dumb #Heroism

Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.
-- Havelock Ellis

#Opportunity #Society #Heroism