Heroism Quotes

• I am well aware that there is such a great craving in man for heroism and the heroic, and that hero worship forms not a small motif in his complex. I am also aware that, unless man believes in his own heroism and the heroism of others, he cannot achieve much or great things. We must, however, take proper care that we do not make a fetish of this cult of hero-worship, for then we will turn ourselves into votaries of false gods and prophets.

  

  Aung San
  • Believes
  • Heroism
  • Craving

• A hero is someone right who doesn't change.

  

  George Foreman
  • Hero
  • Heroism

• Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Relation
  • Heroism
  • Great Men

• If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.

  

  Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • History
  • Medicine
  • Patients

• To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

  

  George Eliot
  • Play
  • Woman
  • Discipline

• Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Spirit
  • Capable
  • Contradiction

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

  

  Susan Faludi
  • Strong
  • Weak
  • Heroism

• We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle.

  

  Russell Banks
  • Earth
  • Water
  • Air

• 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
  • Darkness
  • Flame

• Courage doesn't always involve physical heroism in the face of death. It doesn't always require giant leaps worthy of celebration. Sometimes, courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Sometimes

• Mostly the subject of the photograph, which can be anyone really, coming down the street - someone that has no idea. Heroism in photography, just like in a novel, is for everyone.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Novel
  • Photograph
  • Subject

• Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Happiness
  • Difficult
  • Heroism

• To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

  

  Richard Thompson
  • Requires
  • Heroism
  • Acoustic

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