Quotes tagged ‘Heroism’

“You still think it's beautiful to die for your country. The first bombardment taught us better. When it comes to dying for country, it's better not to die at all.”

— George Abbott, Del Andrews, Maxwell Anderson, Paul Bäumer, Lew Ayres, imdb.com

“Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”

— Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North, Gen. George S. Patton Jr., George C. Scott, imdb.com

“Where there is heroism there will always be hope.”

— Peter Morgan, Sir Winston Churchill, John Lithgow, imdb.com

“Special Agent Seeley Booth: You beat up armed guerillas? Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I had to. You weren't there to save me.”

— Hart Hanson, Temperance 'Bones' Brennan, Emily Deschanel, imdb.com

“Claire Littleton: What do you suppose all that's about? Charlie Pace: I reckon Jack's going to do something heroic.”

— Steven Maeda, Leonard Dick, Charlie Pace, Dominic Monaghan, imdb.com

“This new-found heroism is making me very attracted to you. You wanna just make out a little bit? Just to see how it feels?”

— Luke Passmore, Stiles Stilinski, Dylan O'Brien, imdb.com

“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service…”

— John McCain, amazon.com

“Do you know what the definition of a hero is? Someone who gets other people killed.”

— Joss Whedon, Zoë Washburne, Gina Torres, imdb.com

“Real heroes don't wear capes.”

— Laura Driscoll, amazon.com

“Look into your own eyes and tell me you are not heroic, that you have not endured, or suffered... or lost the things you care about most. And yet, here you are... a survivor of Hell's Kitchen... the hottest place anyone's ever known. A place where cowards don't last long. So... you must be a hero. W…”

— Douglas Petrie, Marco Ramirez, Karen Page, Deborah Ann Woll, imdb.com

“I'm not trying to be a hero. I'm just a guy that got fed up with men like you and I decided to do something about it.”

— Joe Pokaski, Matt Murdock, Charlie Cox, imdb.com

“I suppose if we’re going to die, it should be for a noble cause.”

— Sarah J. Maas, Sam Cortland, amazon.com

“To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.”

— Sugar Ray Robinson, books.google.com

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

— Nora Ephron, wellesley.edu

“The idea of the banality of heroism debunks the myth of the ‘heroic elect,’ a myth that reinforces two basic human tendencies. The first is to ascribe very rare personal characteristics to people who do something special — to see them as superhuman, practically beyond comparison to the rest of us. T…”

— Philip Zimbardo, greatergood.berkeley.edu

“This child, who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero becomes a martyr? We are proud of them.”

— Yasser Arafat, en.wikiquote.org

“Americans are really good at acute compassion, but pretty bad at chronic empathy. We, without question, haul strangers out of a raging flood, give blood, give food, give shelter. But we are lousy at legislating safe, sustainable communities, at eldercare, at accessible streets and buildings. It is t…”

— Sigrid Ellis, twitter.com

“Sometimes, all you had to do was exist in order to be someone's saviour.”

— Keigo Higashino, amazon.com

“Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism.”

— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com

“Take action. Every story you've ever connected with, every leader you've ever admired, every puny little thing that you've ever accomplished is the result of taking action. You have a choice. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is…”

— Bradley Whitford, news.wisc.edu