When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.
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.
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.
You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.