Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If you achieve a success not achieved by anyone else and not possible to achieve by anyone else then you are the… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict. — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
“In the United States, violence and heroism have been made synonymous except when it comes to blacks, and” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. — William Manchester Copy Share Image
“There was the potential for evil everywhere, and the only way to combat it was if more people chose goodness. If more… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Most travel disasters turn into something else: a story of survival, a story of bravery, of heroism, sometimes villainy. You just don't… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
“A hero sacrifices for the greater good. A hero is true to his or her conscience. In short, heroism means doing the… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“Heroism and ignominy both are part of our history. The only question is whether, having seen both, we can repent of the… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized,--spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone,… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism… — James Spader Copy Share Image
I'm saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I feel uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
It is impossible to put into words what we have been through. What happened exceeded our boldest dreams. The Germans fled twice… — Mordechai Anielewicz Copy Share Image
To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Captain Richard Phillips of the good ship Maersk Alabama - and Sully Sullenberger splashing down his crippled airliner in the Hudson River… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
“Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated… — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
“Today is my last day as a human, tomorrow I am going to be a hero.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“You can survive without artistry, but you cannot live without artistry.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image