Heroism Quotes
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…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.
Albert Camus -
Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
William James
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I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.
Sam Ervin -
Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
Salman Khan -
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
Malala Yousafzai -
On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.
Nancy Gibbs -
I don't concentrate on any one period of history; I like to locate my stories in wildly different eras and places. I seem to be drawn to large, sprawling, uncomfortable swaths of American history, finding embedded within them a tight narrative that involves strife, heroism, and survival under difficult circumstances.
Hampton Sides
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We are moving away from the old idea of leadership - leadership has less to do (now) with heroism. We don't look for... unblemished omnipotent heroes, but leaders who are complex, dependent, changeable... We do not need one dominant authority structure telling all our inner voices to shut up.
Walter Truett Anderson -
Heroism in a bad cause.
Karel Reisz -
I have decorated soldiers for heroism before, and it was always such an honor to do it.
Jack Keane -
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
Calvin Coolidge -
I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.
Abebe Bikila -
There is a need for heroism in American life today.
Vicki Baum
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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
Henry Ward Beecher -
I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.
Andrew Bernstein -
PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they can and will make the world a better place.
Michael Arad -
True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein
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No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.
Plato -
Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!
Madame de Stael -
The legacy of this place is heroism and goodness. That is what we celebrate through this museum.
Frank Keating -
His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields.
William Manchester