Plutarch Quotes

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

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

Heroism is a matter of integrity--beco ming more and more at each step ourselves.

In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of the ones you love, people aren't so willing to make those sacrifices. When they do, they are set apart from the rest of us.

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means putting at risk your immediate self-interest for what you believe is right.

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

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

To the valiant actions speak alone.

Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.

I believe that you and I - and everyone we'll ever meet - has the inborn capacity to be heroic, to take daring, courageous, and noble steps to make life better for others, even when in the short term it seems to be at our own expense. The capacity to do the right thing, to dare to take a stand and make a difference, is within you now.

A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.

It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

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

Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.

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.

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth.

Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.

I mean, I always think when you're an actor you have to be the guy running into the burning building rather than running out of it, if you want to make some noise as an actor.

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

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.