Heroism Quotes - Page 5

• Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Happiness, Hero, Land

  Bertolt Brecht (2015). “Life Of Galileo”, p.134, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Shining, Moments, Communist

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• The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Epic, Men, Tools

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• Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.

  Max Beerbohm

  Hero, Praise, Humans

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.75, New York Review of Books

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• Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Spring, Sacrifice, Self

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.171

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• In all their wars against the French they [the Americans] never showed such conduct, attention and perseverance as they do now.

  Thomas Gage

  Perseverance, War, Military

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• Neil Armstrong today takes his place in the hall of heroes. The moon will miss its first son of earth.

  Mitt Romney

  Hero, Son, Moon

  Twitter post from Aug 25, 2012

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• It is impossible to put into words what we have been through. What happened exceeded our boldest dreams. The Germans fled twice from the ghetto... My life's dream has come true. Defense in the ghetto has become a fact. Armed Jewish resistance and revenge are actually happening. I have witnessed the glorious and heroic combat of the Jewish fighters.

  Mordechai Anielewicz

  Dream, Revenge, War

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• The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.

  Irwin Edman

  Hero, Patterns, Worship

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• Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Spring, Heart, Sacrifice

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• Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse--a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment's insulting radiance, it is ruthlessly swallowed up,--but a steady fire, which darts forth tongues of flame. It is no sparkling epigram of action, but a luminous epic of character.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Character, Epic, Rushing

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• A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.

  Sigmund Freud

  Father, Hero, Men

  Sigmund Freud (2016). “Moses and Monotheism”, p.11, Leonardo Paolo Lovari

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• Don't aim at any impossible heroisms. Strive rather to be quiet in your own sphere. Don't live in the cloudland of some transcendental heaven; do your best to bring the glory of a real heaven down, and ray it out upon your fellows in this work-day world.

  William Morley Punshon

  Real, Heaven, Rays

  William Morley Punshon (1873). “Lectures and Sermons”, p.16, Adam, Stevenson

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• Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows out the candle; a women terrified of the pain of childbirth who says, 'It is time to become a mother'. Heroism does not always live on the battlefield.

  David Gemmell

  Mother, Children, Pain

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• Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.

  John F. Kennedy

  Truth, Science, Tyrants

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• Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth. This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.

  Rollo May

  Inspiring, Hero, Order

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• When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Death, Fate, Honor

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1906). “Famous Speeches, Complete ...”

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• The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

  Johan Huizinga

  Hero, Titles, Survivor

  Jakob Herman Huizinga, Johan Huizinga (1969). “Dutch civilisation in the seventeenth century: and other essays”

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• Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.

  Ernest Becker

  Men, Support, May

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• Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Life, Hero, Writing

  The Crack-Up "Note-Books" (1945)

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• Heroism is about taking an action which represents a breakthrough, and then assuming full responsiblity for it, even if it's a failure.

  Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

  Hero, Action, Assuming

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• What is a society without a heroic dimension?

  Jean Baudrillard

  Hero, Dimensions, Heroic

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.89, Verso

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• Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

  James Geary

  Events, Results, Response

  "Tube driver, footballer, rock star, terror victim: they're all Euro heroes" by Mark Townsend, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2005.

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• Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.

  Leif Enger

  Curiosity, Panic, Sometimes

  Leif Enger (2009). “So Brave, Young, and Handsome: A Novel”, p.287, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Just look at the list of who the lowest-paid people are. Pediatricians are at the bottom. You would also look at internists. You would look at psychiatrists. You would look at family physicians, HIV specialists. People who take care of chronic illnesses by seeing people carefully over time, those are the people who get the least money. The people who have the most are people like orthopedic surgeons, interventional cardiologists. And my point isn't that there is something wrong with heroism.

  Atul Gawande

  People, Care, Illness

  Source: www.pbs.org

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