Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
Sometimes you can't wait for someone else to save you. You have to be the hero that saves yourself. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
I am well aware that there is such a great craving in man for heroism and the heroic, and that hero worship… — Aung San Copy Share Image
1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first… — Rosa DeLauro Copy Share Image
The hero is the one who goes beyond his skills, until he becomes able to improve, and perhaps even alter, the skills… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Duke is a character who believes that heroism and the Robin mantle can exist entirely separate from Batman himself. — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
“So the difference between a criminal and a hero is the order in which their vile crimes are committed. And justice comes… — Lois McMaster Bujold 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
Our country doesn't depend on the heroism of every citizen. But all of us should be worthy of the sacrifices made on… — John McCain 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
The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to… — Heinrich von Treitschke Copy Share Image
You can die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. -Harvey Dent — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Genuine bravery occurs when you least expect it, and when, in fact, you're quite oblivious of it. Sometimes heroism happens when you… — Gerald Hausman Copy Share Image
“Remember, before they promoted to the chair of CEO, they were the best employees of their companies.” — Amit Kalantri 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
Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people,… — Nnamdi Azikiwe Copy Share Image
The fear of loss is an engine of horrors, but also a source of the greatest forms of heroism. There's not a… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a… — Henry David Thoreau 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 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
