Heroism Quotes - Page 6

• Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Courage, Hero

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.41, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Heroism is not fighting some big battle. It is not standing up to some fearsome foe ... Heroism is every day getting up with a mission to show this world that you are going to light it up with your spirit, to make the best out of yourself.

  Cory Booker

  Fighting, Light, Battle

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• Heroism is an extraordinary feat of the flesh; holiness is an ordinary act of the spirit. One may bring personal glory; the other always gives God glory.

  Charles Colson

  Giving, Ordinary, Holiness

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.135, Zondervan

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• Stamping down the weakness of mind and heart, stand up, saying, "I am possessed of heroism, I am possessed of a steady intellect..." Never allow weakness to overtake your mind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Heart, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Saradananda (1964). “Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda”

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• The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

  Jean Genet

  Success, Congratulations, Hero

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.

  Jim Butcher

  Trying, Pay, Cold

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.158, Penguin

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• In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the acceptance of anonymity, in the studied resistance to the normal American tropism toward the limelight.

  Shana Alexander

  Acceptance, Cult Of Personality, Quality

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• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Wisdom, Self, Doubt

  The Blithedale Romance ch. 2 (1852)

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• The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.

  Susan Faludi

  Strong, Men, Weak

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• The heroic cannot be the common,
  nor the common the heroic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Common, Reconcile

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.379, Library of America

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• 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, Atheism

  "Caliban: A Philosophical Drama Continuing 'The Tempest' of William Shakespeare". Book by Ernest Renan (Act 2, Scene 1), 1878.

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• Our country doesn't depend on the heroism of every citizen. But all of us should be worthy of the sacrifices made on our behalf.

  John McCain

  Country, Patriotic, Sacrifice

  Liberty University Commencement Address, delivered 13 May 2006

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• Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.

  William J. Clinton

  Odds, People, Volunteer

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• Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

  Jonathan Haidt

  War, People, Giving

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• To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murderers, adulterers, and hypocrites of every description. It also, at the same time, identifies you with saints and the finest persons of heroic soul within every time, country, race, and gender. To be a member of the church is to carry the mantle of both the worst sin and the finest heroism of soul . . . because the church always looks exactly as it looked at the original crucifixion, God hung among thieves.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Country, Children, Hypocrite

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• It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame. This is the tragedy of the world. For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.

  Alice Walker

  Believe, Fall, Hero

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.15, Ballantine Books

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• Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But we can all be heroic in the little things of everyday life. We can do the helpful things, say the kind words, meet our difficulties with courage and high hearts, stand up for the right when the cost is high, keep our word even though it means sacrifice, be a giver instead of a destroyer. Often this quiet, humble heroism is the greatest heroism of all.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Hero, Heart, Humble

  Wilferd Arlan Peterson, Xizhen Wu (1978). “當代的生活藝術”

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• The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them. I think (Alan Shore) intends to do the right thing, but his view of the world is very different so, to get to the right place, he sometimes takes a path that goes through a very dark forest.

  James Spader

  Hero, Dark, Thinking

  The Olympian, October 04, 2005.

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• These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

  Abigail Adams

  Hero, Heart, Character

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• The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Hero, Society, Ancestor

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• The great, the fundamental need of any nation, any race, is for heroism, devotion, sacrifice; and there cannot be heroism, devotion, or sacrifice in a primarily skeptical spirit.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Sacrifice, Race, Needs

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.193, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Hero, Conflict, Threat

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• The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Wish, Doe

  Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

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• Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have had to devote themselves to death; and that makes a vital difference in male and female religion. Women have been forced to fear whilst men have been forced to dare: the heroism of a woman is to nurse and protect life, and of a man to destroy it and court death.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Angel, Men, Differences

  "The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism". Book by George Bernard Shaw (Chapter 82), 1928.

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• Librarianship is a form of heroism. It’s just not as flashy as swords and dragons.

  Mira Grant

  Dragons, Form, Flashy

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