The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can't possibly act on.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Hero' is not an official status or designation, but if the world recognize you as a hero, it is the highest honor… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“A certain way to have financial security in life is not enough savings, but enough ability.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Everyday heroism is all about doing what we ought to on a daily basis and regardless of the tons of pressures that… — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St.… — A. E. Hotchner Copy Share Image
The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty.… — Lord Byron 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
1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first… — Rosa DeLauro Copy Share Image
On the night he died - he was twenty-seven - Basquiat had been planning to see a Run-DMC show. When people asked… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Of what avail are my loftiest thoughts if I have ceased to exist?” there are some will ask; to whom others, it… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Why had he committed this terrible sin? Everything in the world was insignificant compared to what he had lost. Everything in the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
“In [Bloom's] having managed to sustain his curiosity about the people and the world around him after thirty-eight years of familiarity and… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Too often in the past, our Armed Forces have returned to Canada from their trials with little fanfare. Not so today. Canadians… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
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