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Heroism Quotes


These are some of the best 'Heroism' quotations and sayings.

A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
Dream not that helm and harness are signs of valor true. - Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.
Every man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that, person, whatever he says, has an enhanced value.
Fear nothing so much as sin, and your moral heroism is complete.
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. - But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.
Heroism is active; genius, contemplative heroism. Heroism is the self-devotion of genius manifesting itself in action.
However great the advantages which nature bestows on us, it is not she alone, but fortune in conjunction with her, which makes heroes.
Mankind is not disposed to look nar­rowly into the conduct of great victora when their victory is on the right side.
Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course not; for one must be a hero to understand a hero. - The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.
Self-trust is the essence of heroism
Take away from mankind their vanity and their ambition, and there would be but few claiming to be heroes or patriots.
The grandest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy.
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.
The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered, than for what they have achieved.
The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
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 of history.
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
Unbounded courage and compassion joined proclaim him good and great, and make the hero and the man complete.
We cannot think, too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as he is to the infirmities of a man, yet suffering the tortures of a demon, and bearing them with the magnanimity of a God, do we not behold a heroism that angels may indeed surpass, but which they cannot imitate, and must admire.