Jeff Cooper Quotes

There is nothing more noble than putting yourself in the line of fire to save a life.

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different. All your life you've been training to forget yourself, so when you're in danger, it becomes your first instinct

Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.

I like to say I'm not a hero.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Every man is a hero to his alias.

My wife Lorrie actually looked in the dictionary to see what the definition was of heroism because it had been used so much. She found at least one definition is someone who chooses to put themselves at risk to save another.

A hero could be anyone who does something heroic, irrespective of the gender.

I jumped on the grenade that was thrown at myself and my friend. I don't recommend it.

If he'd been a hero, he would have taken the opportunity to say, "That's what I call sorted!" Since he wasn't a hero, he threw up.

I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.

Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.

Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.

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

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

Heroes aren't athletes who set new sports records, or Hollywood actors who make 'daring' films or politicians who make bold promises. Heroes are people who place themselves at risk for the benefit of others.

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.

The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then must save her. It's a triumph of the human spirit, via a mouse.