I believe that you and I - and everyone we'll ever meet - has the inborn capacity to be heroic, to take… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“He must have stood there for a long time, making a list of all the terrible things he had done—almost killinng me… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice.… — Bruce Greenwood Copy Share Image
Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic,… — Ernie Harwell Copy Share Image
Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic… — Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy Copy Share Image
We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't… — John Green Copy Share Image
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I think most of us maintain some sort of fantasy in our minds that we are heroes, if only secretly, that we… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
Our boys in Iraq are the fucking real heroes, putting their lives on the line for their country. There is nothing more… — Aaron Johnson Copy Share Image
I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The heroic New York doctor who caught Ebola has been declared Ebola free. President Obama called the doctor to thank him for… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
Aja gave Loor an up and down once-over. She then said, "Is Loor a man's name or a woman's name?" Ouch. Loor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not… — John Green Copy Share Image
The first thought that I had about really trying to get sober was, 'Man, I could do a lot of good in… — Steve-O Copy Share Image
I'd love to say something heroic. I'd love to say we made history. But basically it was a bunch of guys parked… — Greg Noll Copy Share Image
It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
The heroic minute.- It is the time fixed for getting up.- Without hesitation: a supernatural reflection and.-.-.- up! The heroic minute: here… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
I raised two sons, and I know that even though they're bigger and stronger than I am, they're still little boys inside.… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
The disappearance of the heroic ideal is always accompanied by the growth of commercialism. There is a cause-and-effect relationship here, for the… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I don't want to be considered a hero… Imagine [if] young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to… — Miep Gies Copy Share Image
A lot of action heroes, we're told they are heroic primarily because they commit violence upon the bad guy. It can be… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
No leader did more for his country than Winston Churchill. Brave, magnanimous, traditional, he was like a king-general from Britain's heroic past.… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
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