True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you just gotta be your own hero and save your own little heart. Because sometimes the people you can't imagine living… — Greg Dybec Copy Share Image
God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
Working on a movie like 'Prince of Persia' was awesome. It was great fun to be an action hero and to jump… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Our body is there right now. You did not have to earn a thing. It is a gift. You are a hero… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
My head was in the clouds after 'Bobby,' but my struggle had only begun because at the age of 21, I had… — Rishi Kapoor Copy Share Image
The system has a way of convincing people that because they live in the USA they are better off than all other… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
A woman in the presence of a good man, a real man, loves being a woman. His strength allows her feminine heart… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
The iPod wasn't the first MP3 player. Nor were the iPhone and iPad the first in their categories. The real reason for… — Daniel Lyons Copy Share Image
Every Thanksgiving, Barack sits down to call some of our troops and thank them for their service. When he tells me about… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I think people imagine that I have about five scripts sitting in front of me and I say, 'I think I'm going… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Do heroes know when they are heroic? Rarely. Are historic moments acknowledged when they happen? You know the answer to that one.… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Man's proper stature is not one of mediocrity, failure, frustration, or defeat, but one of achievement, strength, and nobility. In short, man… — Mike Mentzer Copy Share Image
I think heroism is when somebody really goes above and beyond the call of duty and does something outstanding for either themselves… — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today. — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
Rarely do they appear great before their valets. [Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur valets-de-chambre.] — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, people embrace me and treat me like a national hero. The people in the streets are asking for the… — Jair Bolsonaro Copy Share Image
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
We are scattered, stunned; the remnant of heart left alive is filled with brotherly hate... Whose fault? Everybody blamed somebody else. Only… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
The one thing that TV is bad at doing is preaching. There are two extremes, you either turn the people into a… — Mike Rowe Copy Share Image
Kurosawa is my hero, and I've taught courses on his films, and I love what he does, and 'Rashomon' is, I think,… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
I love when I get compliments on my shirts all the time. I'm a t-shirt guy, and I think nine times out… — Cress Williams Copy Share Image
“The stories didn't seem to care who he was or what he could do; it didn't matter. In their world, he wasn't… — Estevan Vega Copy Share Image
The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
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… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
First of all, I never think of my characters as good or evil. I play them as honestly as I can. When… — Dennis Haysbert Copy Share Image
In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great… — Kit Carson Copy Share Image
“The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point; to shatter and annihilate that… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
My dad, God bless him, had his problems and transferred them over to me. He was a huge hero to me, and… — B. J. Thomas Copy Share Image
No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of the globe reach even to us here, as to more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I played few hero roles in the initial days of my career, but audiences loved me for my comic timing and, therefore,… — Ali Copy Share Image
I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things. — Jerry Robinson Copy Share Image
There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
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