As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
Isn't it only natural to leave a place where one is so bitterly hated?...The heroism involved in staying put in spite of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Through action, a Man becomes a Hero. Through death, a Hero becomes a Legend. Through time, a Legend becomes a Myth. By… — Grant Hope Copy Share Image
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not… — John Green Copy Share Image
On September 11, 2001, America suffered an unimaginable tragedy and witnessed the incredible heroism of hundreds of first responders who rushed into… — Lucy McBath Copy Share Image
I thought, This is fabulous. It sent shivers up my spine. I thought, What kinds of people are these that would produce… — Bruce Beresford Copy Share Image
“The great human being is a finale; the great age — the Renaissance, for example — is a finale. The genius, in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Dynamic ecstasy is absolute romanticism , absolute heroism . And here I return to my point. From my point of view, after… — Juan Ramon Jimenez Copy Share Image
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
However much of time, labor, or other means it takes to establish a reputation, it frequently happens that it requires nearly as… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“Heroism is rarely the loud, world-saving stuff of the movies. Often it's just having the courage not to give up; it's being… — Corey Booker Copy Share Image
What is a hero? Is it someone who is willing to sacrifice their life for another? Is it someone who prevents the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust.… — Anonymous 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
Trump would have us revise and edit our historical memory of 9/11, turning it from a unifying narrative of heroism, tragedy, and… — Rick Wilson 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
“We’ve made a wrong place for fathers in the world, so they throw their lives at heroisms and braveries and wars, and… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Today the economic development of Armenia is as important as victory in the war was yesterday. Our battle has moved from the… — Vazgen Sargsyan Copy Share Image
“Gentlemen, here is a truth: Enduring tedium over real time in a confined space is what real courage is… True heroism is… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't… — John Green Copy Share Image
The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Courage doesn't always involve physical heroism in the face of death. It doesn't always require giant leaps worthy of celebration. Sometimes, courage… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an army, I am a… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I wouldn't characterize anybody who fought in Vietnam as a war hero. In 23 bombing sorties, there must have been civilians that… — Medea Benjamin Copy Share Image
The bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the… — Rosa DeLauro Copy Share Image
“I decided to do the easy task of changing situations and conditions by being a hero, than staying back to do the… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Each one of us has the power — and must develop the will — to be the hero of his own life.… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
Men have said that the cross of Christ was not a heroic thing, but I want to tell you that the cross… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
“Why do you demand of me a heroism that perhaps you have not either? It is despotism; it is tyranny. If I… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The noble heart will find no shortage of places to offer itself in martyrdom, but you cannot die on every battlefield.” ~… — R.L. Syme Copy Share Image
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume ... that we really know the score…… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The woman who led [downed airmen] was named Andrée De Jongh and her story - one of heroism and peril and astounding… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
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