“Winners of some competition are not heroes, heroes are not found in the competition, heroes win much more severe battles than competition… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Looking across this field, we see the scale of heroism and sacrifice. All who are buried here understood their duty. All stood… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Well, personally, I've seen enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Don't aim at any impossible heroisms. Strive rather to be quiet in your own sphere. Don't live in the cloudland of some… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
“Your hero is unable to hold his wine, I see,' observed Serpentine, dispassionately. 'He is not my hero,' said Door. 'I'm afraid… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The woman who led [downed airmen] was named Andrée De Jongh and her story - one of heroism and peril and astounding… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“And here before me stands a marvelously groomed little man who is pinning a hero's medal on me because some of his… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“That summer, Titanic fever gripped Kabul. People smuggled pirated copies of the film from Pakistan- sometimes in their underwear. After curfew, everyone… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“There is heroism to be found in great battles, it is true; warriors with stable knees who fight and know that they… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating,… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; his origin, his growth, his hopes… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Frankly, Django is an American story that needs to be told, when you think of slavery existing in this country for 245… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“Gentlemen- by which I mean, of course, latter adolescents who aspire to manhood gentlemen, here is a truth: Enduring tedium over real… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Heroism is not fighting some big battle. It is not standing up to some fearsome foe ... Heroism is every day getting… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the… — Rosa DeLauro Copy Share Image
The bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
I wouldn't characterize anybody who fought in Vietnam as a war hero. In 23 bombing sorties, there must have been civilians that… — Medea Benjamin Copy Share Image
Courage doesn't always involve physical heroism in the face of death. It doesn't always require giant leaps worthy of celebration. Sometimes, courage… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an army, I am a… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume ... that we really know the score…… — Gordon Allport 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
“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Why do you demand of me a heroism that perhaps you have not either? It is despotism; it is tyranny. If I… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The noble heart will find no shortage of places to offer itself in martyrdom, but you cannot die on every battlefield.” ~… — R.L. Syme Copy Share Image
“I decided to do the easy task of changing situations and conditions by being a hero, than staying back to do the… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Each one of us has the power — and must develop the will — to be the hero of his own life.… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
Men have said that the cross of Christ was not a heroic thing, but I want to tell you that the cross… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“We’ve made a wrong place for fathers in the world, so they throw their lives at heroisms and braveries and wars, and… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Trump would have us revise and edit our historical memory of 9/11, turning it from a unifying narrative of heroism, tragedy, and… — Rick Wilson 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
As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
![“The woman who led [downed airmen] was named Andrée De Jongh and her story - one of heroism and peril and astounding courage - became the inspiration for my novel.” quote by Megan Chance](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/655/megan-chance-8853_airmen_the-woman-who-led-downed-airmen-was-name_1120273.jpg)
![“Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume ... that we really know the score… [But] this is not an easy assignment. [As] Santayana wrote, 'Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one's equation written out.'” quote by Gordon Allport](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f3b/gordon-allport-29384_assignments_since-we-think-about-ourselves-so-much-o_1110919.jpg)
