Melanie Scrofano Quotes

A hero usually rises above the ordinary because he or she exemplifies some virtue that everyone can recognize.

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths.

I'm simply saying that heroes are people whose activities, whose attitudes, and whose judgment you just think, 'Wow. That's good. That's right. That's real.'

Chris Kyle was a human being, a Texan, Navy SEAL, father, husband, brother, friends to many, and a hero to many; this, at a time when we need all the heroes we can get. I knew him to be a good person, regardless of all the hype floating around in the media.

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

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.

These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

People aren't universally heroic.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.

You can see how he changed on the surface. But at the core of it all, I think Superman has remained the same - a character with incredible powers but almost superhuman humility and restraint.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

The bravery shown by Azza Suleiman who dared to stand up for another woman who was being beaten, and paid a heavy price in doing so, is both awe-inspiring and humbling.

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

I wanted to be a hero, then I wanted to be an actor. But always I wanted to be respected as a good human being.