Bryan Konietzko Quotes

To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.

In some crazy sort of way, if I died helping a teammate or a friend or someone that I love, I think I could live with it. My family probably couldn't, but I think I could.

Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.

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

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark.

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

For months people have been begging me to come here for this Kamikaze operation. We will die well. The fact that we are taking a role in a great moment is history is a great honor.

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

A hero is a man who does what he can.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty.

He would take the blow so you didn't have to.

I'm saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes always take a risk. Heroes always deviant. Heroes always doing something that most people don't and we want to change - I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero.

Give me a character that has an heroic quality, and I'll go there.

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.

Spare all I have, and take my life.

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

I'd take a bullet for just about anyone! If someone pulled out a gun, I'd step in front of you even though I've never met you.

They died to save their country, and they only saved the world.