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
“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
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
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
I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming… — Sam Ervin 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
What is the commonest, and yet the least remembered form of heroism? The heroism of an average mother. Ah! when I think… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
The less you demand total fulfillment from relationships, the more you can appreciate them for the beautiful tapestries they are, in which… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent… — Anonymous 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
Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“The attitude of uncompromising heroism is attractive, and appeals especially to the dramatic instinct. But the purpose of the serious revolutionary is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I'm not a vindictive person. But I do want to shine a light on human frailty and heroism in equal measure. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“War is hell, but sometimes in the midst of that hell men do things that heaven itself must be proud of. A… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
