heroism quotes

• Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. (James Baldwin) [ability/discussion/heroism]
• True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat. ( Napoleon I) [heroism/being/life]
• A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests. (Aristide Briand) [heroism//right]
• Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. (Thomas Carlyle) [heroism/men]
• Self-trust is the essence of heroism. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [essence/heroism]
• The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [heroism/men]
• Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [heroism/right]
• There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. (William Hazlitt) [heroism/crime/virtue/religion]
• 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) [heroism/men/willpower]
• The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it. (Henry David Thoreau) [inspires/genius/heroism]
• The heroism of the role, ... was playing up the vulnerability of the role, and that was all Jimmy. (James Caan) [heroism/role/vulnerability/role]
• “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 [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) [villains/heroism/think/right]

Calendar

Sun Mon Tue Wen Thu Fri Sat Apr 25 [65] 26 [51] 27 [71] 28 Apr 29 [10] 30 [58] 1 [2] 2 [50] 3 [73] 4 [75] 5 [35] May 6 [75] 7 [104] 8 [50] 9 10 [106] 11 [79] 12 [50] May 13 [50] 14 [8] 15 [75] 16 [114] 17 [50] 18 [112] 19 May 20 [79] 21 [76] 22 [59] 23 [43] 24 [61] 25 [71] 26 [50] May

The Best Authors

Search

Pop by Searches

Best Quote

Worst Quote