“Heroism isn't all about noise and action, sometimes it's a quiet understated thing, like an act of kindness.” — Fabian Black Copy Share Image
However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Do everything for Love. Thus there will be no little things: everything will be big. Perseverance in little things for Love is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices Are fathered by our heroism. Virtues Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes.” — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic. — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
“Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
[On gay ban in the military:] Heroism, I believe, is a trait that does not know race, color, creed, sex, or sexual… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
“Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!” — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some… — John Keats Copy Share Image
If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when… — Bono Copy Share Image
All peace-loving women shut up when they sense they have stepped onto Guy Turf. Guy Turf is a murky realm of ego… — Jeanne Marie Laskas Copy Share Image
“Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political ineffiency. In a properly organized society like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also… — Aristide Briand Copy Share Image
“We'd been trying so hard to look like our heroes, we'd kinda forgotten what a hero really is. Capes, masks, powers —… — Mikko Copy Share Image
The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously.… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's… — William James Copy Share Image
“But God's the reason for everything noble and fine and heroic. If you had a God …" "My dear young friend," said… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you’re somehow able to look… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
“A friend once asked me why it was that stories about animals and their heroism...are so compelling. ...we love them because they're… — Gwen Cooper Copy Share Image
It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like 'democracy,' 'freedom,' 'rights,' 'justice,' which have so… — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
“Duty comes in many forms; at times duty to country may conflict with duty to family. Yet, with a lucid mind the… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so . — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem. — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Heroism is a matter of integrity--beco ming more and more at each step ourselves. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
When you feel like hope is gone, Look inside you and be strong. And you'll finally see the truth, That a hero… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
If you want to be heroic, Don't emulate your heroes, learn from them. Heroes don't follow anyone, they set their own course. — Jonathan Lockwood Huie Copy Share Image
“I asked my Greek chorus about this sort of hero: the Underappreciated Personification of Resolve.” — Brad Herzog Copy Share Image
Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
“love could be soft and understanding; that, soft or hard, love was an act of heroism. And” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“If, as has been postulated before, heroism happens when courage meets circumstance, what if the circumstances are mundane?” — Brad Herzog Copy Share Image
“to become conscious of what one is doing to earn his feeling of heroism is the main self-analytic problem of life.” — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image