Heroic Act Quotes

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

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

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.

Dobby is a free elf, and Dobby has come to save Harry Potter and his friends!

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

I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.

Apart from a couple that were just having fun with the concept and making fun of [Donald] Trump - like the one we did with Keegan Michael-Key - they really are little hero narratives. The whole "Save the Day" - it's called that, specifically, for a reason - ethos is there is this heroic act called voting. And the world is scary, and things are overwhelming, and there's a lot at stake.

I want to do action which is larger than life but has a touch of reality.

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.

My friend is going to save a little girl from monsters. I am going with him. That's what friends do.

No one will ever say Dwight Clark was selfish.

The willing sacrifice of the innocent is the most powerful answer to insolent tyranny that has yet been conceived by God or man.

Is Tyson okay?" I asked. The question seemed to take my dad by surprise. He's fine. Doing much better than I expected. Though "peanut butter" is a strange battle cry. "You let him fight?" Stop changing the subject! You realize what you are asking me to do? My palace will be destroyed. "And Olympus might be saved." Do you have any idea how long I've worked on remodeling this palace? The game room alone took six hundred years. "Dad—" Very well! It shall be as you say. But my son, pray this works. "I am praying. I'm talking to you, right?" Oh . . . yes. Good point.

...where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.

They died for me,” I say. That feels important

If there were a button I could press, I would sacrifice myself without hesitating, if it meant millions of people would die.

It's not easy to be a hero. You do it because of what you believe, not because of what other people deserve.

If my name every goes down in history, it will be for this act.

Even if you've been a coward all your life, death is a heroic act.

Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.

What's a hero, if not for its journey. I think you're going to recontextualize what saving the world means, and I think that you will be satisfied with the stakes. That's all I can say about that.

To meet someone who wants to fight to just tell the truth about what's happening in government... this is a real life superhero right here.