Heroic Spirit Quotes

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

It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood.

Kobe always tried to be a hero. But you know, as the saying goes, a hero ain't nothing but a sandwich.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish.

Morning brings back the heroic ages.

Anyone can be a hero. You just have to have faith in yourself.

Well, what I want them to know is, just like John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa, that's the kind of spirit that I have, too.

Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by His heroic spirit: to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils.

A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such nor desire to be; herein consists the heroic spirit of the philosopher.

The feeling that makes 'Warcraft' work as a game is that feeling that heroism can come out of anything or anyone.

I was worried that all the corners of the earth had been explored, all the great battles fought. The famous people on TV were athletes and actresses and singers. What did they stand for? I wondered: Had the time for heroes passed?

Heroes in real life don't wear masks and capes. Sometimes they don't stand out at all. But real heroes can save a life - or many lives - just by answering the call in their heart.

I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.

I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance the weak passions of my sex should damp the fortitude, the patriotism, and the manly resolution of yours. May nothing ever check that glorious spirit of freedom which inspires the patriot in the cabinet, and the hero in the field, with courage to maintain their righteous cause, and to endeavor to transmit the claim to posterity, even if they must seal the rich conveyance to their children with their own blood.

Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they are humble beings, small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.

Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.