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Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.
I have decorated soldiers for heroism before, and it was always such an honor to do it.
There was no heroism in 'Manichitrathazhu' but there will be heroism in 'Chandramukhi.'
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.
The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.
Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.
I think heroism comes in different packages. The superhero package is one that we're familiar with.
I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.
Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.
There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
You picked the right road, even though it is the most difficult. That is the essence of heroism. (p. 326)
No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.
I'm not a vindictive person. But I do want to shine a light on human frailty and heroism in equal measure.
Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.
The feeling that makes 'Warcraft' work as a game is that feeling that heroism can come out of anything or anyone.
The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.
The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.
To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.
Duke is a character who believes that heroism and the Robin mantle can exist entirely separate from Batman himself.
On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.
Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting.
Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!
Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.
In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.
There are people to whom heroism under fire comes naturally and seemingly without effort, but Patton was not one of them.
In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that.
Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.
Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
When you have to spread heroism across too many players, you don't get to really dig deep into each of them as much as you'd want to.
It's thematic in my career, if you look at most of my choices. It is some level of exploration of maternal angst and maternal heroism.
Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?
There is only one way fit for a man - Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.
At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.
Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.
We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.
I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!