The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as… — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
“A hero is not only a brave individual, but a brave individual that dares to be different.” — Keely Barton Copy Share Image
I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Heroism of your father doesn't make you a hero, heroism of you doesn't make your son a hero.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, before you make any plans or resolutions, before you declare your heroic intent to persevere, you just have to cry.” — Jaclyn Dolamore Copy Share Image
“No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“Heroism isn't rising up after a fall. Heroism is preventing self from falling in the first place!” — Muhammed R. El Nabelsy 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
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
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
“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
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
“Deeds of heroism are wrought here more than those of romance, when, defying torture, and braving death itself, the fugitive voluntarily threads… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
... the heroism of the average mother. Ah! When I think of that broad fact, I gather hope again for poor humanity;… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I think you have to take the man at his word [Donald Trump]. Is kind of an equal-opportunity insulter. He started by… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“You or I might think that at least one would show courage and put up a fight. But neither you nor I… — Robert Fanney Copy Share Image
He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero.… — Roland Huntford Copy Share Image
“Successful leaders are like icebergs. When you look at an iceberg, you see only about 10 percent of it, and the rest… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer,… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love.… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
You picked the right road, even though it is the most difficult. That is the essence of heroism. (p. 326) — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
“Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us.” — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events. — Georges Lefebvre Copy Share Image
Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice-- sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves. — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share Image
Neil Armstrong today takes his place in the hall of heroes. The moon will miss its first son of earth. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“Finishing work makes you a man, finishing difficult work makes you a hero.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
In all their wars against the French they [the Americans] never showed such conduct, attention and perseverance as they do now. — Thomas Gage Copy Share Image
“Heroes. Brave men and women who lay down their lives for someone else... Our culture understands heroism. But we don’t understand martyrs.” — DC Talk 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
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
“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