Heroism Quotes - Page 13

• On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Normal, Sept 11, Uncommon

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• Our national fondness for celebrating the physical heroism of soldiers - the apparent readiness with which they sacrifice their lives to larger causes - eclipses the far less romantic displays of moral and intellectual fortitude that also distinguish so many of them. In turning them all into heroes, we have lost a sense of the individuality they also fight to preserve.

  Elizabeth Samet

  War, Hero, Fighting

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• Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

  Kathe Kollwitz

  War, Remembrance, Faces

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.62, Northwestern University Press

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• Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

  Ayn Rand

  Hero, Men, Reverence

  The Fountainhead pt. 4, ch. 14 (1943)

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• I think heroism comes in different packages. The superhero package is one that we're familiar with.

  Deborah Ann Woll

  Thinking, Superhero, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• Regarding heroism, I grew up in a culture where you learn about heroes and heroines all the time. In a way, when you call someone a hero or heroine, it's the same as calling them a villain.

  Yiyun Li

  Hero, Culture, Calling

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think heroism is when somebody really goes above and beyond the call of duty and does something outstanding for either themselves or somebody else.

  John Assaraf

  Thinking, Doe, Call Of Duty

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Success, Kissing, Errors

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.231

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• Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter s!

  Stanislaw Lem

  Faces, Six, Noble

  STANISLAW LEM (1974). “THE CYBERIAD”

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• Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Beauty, Generosity, May

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• Today the economic development of Armenia is as important as victory in the war was yesterday. Our battle has moved from the field of blood and heroism, to the economic field.

  Vazgen Sargsyan

  War, Blood, Yesterday

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• There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy... But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason... A love, inspired, it seems, by the gods, which it is impossible to fight, distort, destroy, or weaken. In fact, the attempts to destroy such loves only strengthen them. And to do nothing allows them to continue to grow at their natural pace, inexoribly, till this love becomes a wide and silent adoration.

  Ben Okri

  Fighting, People, Pace

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• Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .

  George Eliot

  Children, Believe, Hero

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.199, George Eliot

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• No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are orators, politicians, and eloquent men, by the thousand; but the speaker has not yet opened his mouth to speak who is capable of settling the much-vexed questions of the day. We love eloquence for its own sake, and not for any truth which it may utter, or any heroism it may inspire. Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free trade and of freedom, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Men, America

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• With Nietzsche, the black pirates' flag appears for the first time on the high sea of German knowledge. (He is) a different man, from a different race, (his,) a new kind of heroism, philosophywith bellicose weapons and armor.

  Stefan Zweig

  Philosophical, Knowledge, Men

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• What keeps India safe really is the heroism of millions of poor Indians who every day reject the allure of terrorism. What keeps India safe is just the courage of poor Indians, not the actions of its government.

  Aravind Adiga

  Government, India, Safe

  "MoJo Interview: Aravind Adiga". Interview with Sonja Sharp, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2009.

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• No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one

  Jean Paul

  Love, Hero, Giving

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• Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ambition, Vanity, Honor

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• Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.

  Carol Lynn Pearson

  Sports, Veterans Day, Travel

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• One of the jobs of a writer is to add nuance and ambiguity to that straight line that people often draw to very specific kinds of heroism. Most of us don't get to be Snooki. For most of us heroism has to be in our everyday lives.

  John Green

  Jobs, People, Everyday

  Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

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• Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  May, Type, Solitary

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him we owe the Brasidas, the Dion, the Epaminodas, the Scipio of old, and I must think we are more deeply indebted to him than to all the ancient writers. Each of his "Lives" is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists. A wild courage, a Stoicism not of the schools, but of the blood, shines in every anecdote, and had given that book immense fame.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Book, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.281, Modern Library

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• A hero is someone who stands in the community and speaks their hopes and speaks their passion. That's almost an act of heroism nowadays because higher consciousness is so trivialized.

  Marianne Williamson

  Hero, Passion, Community

  Source: www.douglasgillies.com

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• The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our future field.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Future, Past, Ideas

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.655, Simon and Schuster

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• No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Successful, Men, Evil

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