Ian Fleming Quotes

I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.

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

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

I take being a hero really seriously.

I don't think I was a hero. I was just doing my job.

Now I'm running against a woman who, my God, that's all she talks about. Our true heroes, it's the last thing in the world they talk about.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something.

I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

What firefighters and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do; basically these people say, 'I'm going to protect all these strangers.'

I can't spare this man—he fights.

SEALs aren't the only heroes out there. Everyone who puts on a uniform meets that threshold.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

There is something about putting the uniform on. You've got a role to play, to be calm, to lead other people, to go forward when everyone else is running away. It gives you a sense of, not of courage but, 'It's my job.'

If someone comes to me with a script and says, 'Sir, this hero...' I'm like, 'Is there a name, or he is just called a hero?' We are not heroes. Heroes are people fighting for us at the border. We are not heroes; we are just doing our job.

The words used to describe the heroes of D-Day are not the current lexicon we tend to use for success. Humble, selfless, brave. Those are not words we attach in 2019 to superstars.

If my tale has to revolve around a protagonist and there is action around him, I can only imagine him to be someone from the police or the Army.

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

True heros are made of hard work and integrity.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

I am not a hero.