Heroism Quotes - Page 10

• The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Fighting, Men, People

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• The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life.

  Erich Fromm

  Hero, Passion, Men

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
  
  Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.

  Max Ehrmann

  Being Yourself, Exercise, Cynical

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.9, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• 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, Example, Good Company

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• In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Running, War, Hero

  Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”

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• 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, Levels

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• You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

  Marya Mannes

  Integrity, Sacrifice, Honor

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• Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.

  George Santayana

  Lying, Hero, Shouting

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Dialogues in limbo. Platonism and the spiritual life. A long way round to Nirvana. The prestige of the infinite. Ultimate religion”

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• Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany.

  William Joyce

  Germany, Belief, Socialism

  William Joyce (2013). “Twilight Over England”, p.66, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.

  Matthew Fox

  Hero, People, Perfect

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• Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

  John Lubbock

  Character, Endurance, Noble

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• Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

  Salman Khan

  Evil, Triumph, Looks

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• I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.

  David Foster Wallace

  Believe, Adults, Want

  "The Unfinished" by D. T. Max, www.newyorker.com. March 9, 2009.

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• I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.

  Sam Ervin

  Country, War, Sacrifice

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• I am a strong believer that modern political life must rediscover a sense for symbolism. We need to develop a kind of political heroism. I don't mean that I want to play the hero. But we need to be amenable once again to creating grand narratives.

  Emmanuel Macron

  Strong, Hero, Mean

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.

  Lewis Mumford

  Sports, Order, Skills

  "Technics and Civilization" by Lewis Mumford, Ch. 6, (sct. 11), 1934.

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• yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism

  Khaled Hosseini

  Love, Moving, People

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• By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism

  David Gemmell

  Coward, Definitions, Highest

  David Gemmell (2011). “Legend”, p.33, Hachette UK

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• It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.

  Peter Kreeft

  Evil, Justice, Defeat

  Peter Kreeft (2005). “The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind The Lord of the Rings”, p.217, Ignatius Press

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• People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm.

  John Green

  Real, Doctors, People

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.177, Penguin

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• No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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• In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Mother, Lonely, Teacher

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1962). “The Image or What Happened to the American Dream”

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• You picked the right road, even though it is the most difficult. That is the essence of heroism. (p. 326)

  Brandon Mull

  Essence, Difficult, Right Road

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• Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Age, Youth, Grandeur

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.31, Random House

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• In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that.

  John Green

  Love Is, Trying, Opinion

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