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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

The will to be oneself is heroism

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

There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!

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

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

I hope the Ukrainians will match the heroism they have shown with wisdom.

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

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.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake.

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

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

Heroism is not to be won at the point of a pen.

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

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.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

I’m saying to be a hero it means you step accross the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes always take a risk. Heroes always deviant. Heroes always doing something that most people don’t and we want to change – I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero.

Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.

This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

I thought, This is fabulous. It sent shivers up my spine. I thought, What kinds of people are these that would produce this kind of music in a camp? All the prison camp stories I’ve seen, and heard of, were about the heroism of men. As I researched this and heard the music, I realized that women were heroic too, on just as grand a scale. And their treatment was just as appalling.

I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men’s hopes in a way which was essential to the realization of Communism in the future. Regarded as a splendid attempt, without which ultimate success would have been very improbable, Bolshevism deserves the gratitude and admiration of all the progressive part of mankind.

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

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.

Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom of cruelty, or she may simply have confused lack of capital with heroism while searching for rescue without knowing from what.

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.

In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

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.