Heroic Endeavors Quotes

There's nothing noble about dying. Not even if you die for honor. Not even if you die the greatest hero the world ever saw. Not even if you're so great your name will never be forgotten and who's that great? The most important thing is your life, little guys. You're worth nothing dead except for speeches. There's nothing noble about dying. Not even if you die for honor. Not even if you die the greatest hero the world ever saw. Not even if you're so great your name will never be forgotten and who's that great? The most important thing is your life, little guys. You're worth nothing dead except for speeches.

The heroic struggles of the Greeks themselves, in which our warmest sympathies as free men and Christians have been engaged, have continued to be maintained with vicissitudes of success adverse and favorable.

We wanted to talk about death in the DC Universe, and how some people go to get a pass and come back, and some people didn't. That opened up a whole other topic about legacy. We wanted to talk about what was required to be a hero, what were the elements of true heroism?

There is real power in seeing yourself as a hero. Because then you believe that you can do anything.

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.

I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.

The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here.

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

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

Like prospecting in the 19th century, reconnaissance of the asteroids would of necessity take place in an arena where trouble is likely and help is distant. Heroic stories of individual triumph and failure, set on landscapes never seen by humankind, are in the cards.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

In great deeds something abides.

Heroic ages are not and never were sentimental and those daring conquistadores who conquered entire worlds for their Spain or Portugal received lamentably little thanks from their kings.

Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy.

If you want to be a hero, you've got to take hero shots.

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.

For I had rather die in the adventure ot noble achievements, then live in obscure and sluggish security.

To me, doctors and nurses and teachers are heroes, doing often infinitely more difficult work than the more flamboyant kind of a hero.