Jimi Manuwa Quotes

There is something of the warrior in me.

But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, with his martial cloak around him.

I love UFC, vigilante films, and any acts of merciless heroism.

Playing the greatest warrior in the seven kingdoms, that's absolutely no pressure.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

Think about a guy like Bob Mitchum, with his kind of chest gut not defining itself one way or the other. Was there anybody tougher? Lee Marvin was a marine sniper during the Second World War. They had this sense of themselves, and they had this product of being a man in a masculine way.

It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

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

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.

I grew up watching 'Braveheart' and 'Gladiator.' Those are my 'Star Wars.' They have values and traits about them that I wish I had.

Valor is superior to number.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.

I have so much respect for people in the service. The mental strength it takes to do what they do is unbelievable.

I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.