“Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices Are fathered by our heroism. Virtues Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes.” — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Do everything for Love. Thus there will be no little things: everything will be big. Perseverance in little things for Love is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you put your life on the line on a daily basis to help protect and save lives, you are a story… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
I think heroism comes in different packages. The superhero package is one that we're familiar with. — Deborah Ann Woll Copy Share Image
“To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Heroism isn't all about noise and action, sometimes it's a quiet understated thing, like an act of kindness.” — Fabian Black 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
September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I lived the life of Londoners - and thence comes my immense gratitude and my deep attachment with the British people. I… — Maurice Druon Copy Share Image
The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can… — D. J. Enright Copy Share Image
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
Just look at the list of who the lowest-paid people are. Pediatricians are at the bottom. You would also look at internists.… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. In a properly organized society like… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Dear Hunger Games : Screw you for helping cowards pretend you have to be great with a bow to fight evil. You… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I believe in a passionately strong feeling for the poetry of life - for the beautiful, the mysterious, the romantic, the ecstatic… — Leopold Stokowski Copy Share Image
“And I decided to play the hero. See how it felt. To try." "And?" she asks. "I didn't like it," he admits.… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“There is child in all of us that refuses to grow up, a child that is in awe of what can be,… — Shatrujeet Nath Copy Share Image
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Leaders console the world with their speeches, heroes console the world with their actions.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Motherhood is heroism. It is God-given, and yet men treat women as though of similar common clay, when in fact they are… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
“We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise; And then, if we are true to plan, Our… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“In the world of so-called villains, what we need is not another hero. What we need is to stop the influx of… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Our media provides a continuing message that for men, heroism is defined through association with control, independence, and the ability to commit… — Deeyah Khan Copy Share Image
“Edmund felt despair eating away at his victory. "Why is the world like this?" He shivered. "Why does it feel so cold,… — Matthew Jobin Copy Share Image
Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's… — William James Copy Share Image
I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven,… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality.… — Marc Morial Copy Share Image
One of the jobs of a writer is to add nuance and ambiguity to that straight line that people often draw to… — John Green Copy Share Image
