Heroism Quotations

A hero is someone right who doesn't change.

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

It is never easy to relive the events of 9/11, yet I support 'United 93' as a tribute to the heroism of my brother and the 39 other passengers and crew who collectively chose to say 'no' on that fateful day.

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy --common clay, if you like --eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others --the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.

Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.

It's probably one of the most significant milestones in our effort to memorialize the heroism of the passengers and crew of Flight 93.

Their son is a hero. He went to Iraq and thank God he didn't get a bullet, but he comes home and he gets three bullets....

Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.