Todd Tiahrt Quotes

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

The terrorists gave up their lives to kill people. Americans gave up their lives to save people.

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

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

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

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.

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

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.

Heroism is a matter of choice.

Being selfless is not that different from being brave. It is when you are selfless that you are the bravest.

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

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

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

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.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

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

My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met.

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

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.