“Heroism wasn't about what you could do, it was about what you did. It was about who you saved when they needed… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
Feminist art... will take the great human themes – love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself – and render them fully human. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Heroes are hero no matter if everybody is watching them or nobody watching them.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Heroism breaks its heart, and idealism its back, on the intransigence of the credulous and the mediocre, manipulated by the cynical and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I am a strong believer that modern political life must rediscover a sense for symbolism. We need to develop a kind of… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
Heroism, or military glory, is much admired by the generality of mankind. They consider it as the most sublime kind of merit.… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If sub specie aeternitatis [from eternity's point of view] there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
The future of modern society depends much more on the quiet heroism of the very few who are inspired by God. These… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see everyday, is perhaps the most difficult… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. Like them, he was slandered… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am less affected by their heroism who stood up for half an hour in the front line at Buena Vista, than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When Trump defends Planned Parenthood as doing 'wonderful things,' he is condoning the organization. Even if Planned Parenthood didn't do abortions, none… — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages… Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It may not feel too classy, begging just to eat But you know who does that? Lassie, and she always gets a… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There comes Coolidge and does nothing and retires a hero, not only because he hadn't done anything, but because he had done… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I have decorated soldiers for heroism before, and it was always such an honor to do it. — Jack Keane Copy Share Image
“The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The poetry of heroism appeals irresitably to those who don't go to a war, and even more so to those whom the… — Louis Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“I'm a fucking coward." "Maybe." Craw jerked his thumb over his shoulder at Whirrun's corpse. "There's a hero. Tell me who's better… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Vanye: You're asking me to kill you. Luthiel: I'm asking you to save her. ” — Robert Fanney Copy Share Image
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“My friends wanted their names in the list of employees of some company, well I wanted my name in the list of… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Some of us need to learn to be heroes to ourselves before we can be that for others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
War was a way of life for Americans in the early forties. Heroism was expected. — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Starting and profitably running a business is not just some achievement, it is heroism.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity. — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
“Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.” — Emm Cole Copy Share Image