I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Most travel disasters turn into something else: a story of survival, a story of bravery, of heroism, sometimes villainy. You just don't… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
“The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
From an over-arching point-of-view, in war there is heroism on both sides. Obviously, the victor gets the spoils, the victor gets to… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you’re somehow able to look… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There are people to whom heroism under fire comes naturally and seemingly without effort, but Patton was not one of them. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on. — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, before you make any plans or resolutions, before you declare your heroic intent to persevere, you just have to cry.” — Jaclyn Dolamore Copy Share Image
The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Life is Not a perpetual climb towards Greatness. For our family, ourselves, and friends, It is but sad Decay, so, Let every… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events. — Georges Lefebvre Copy Share Image
She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Recognising that an ostentatious cult of heroism and state service served an important propaganda function for the British elite does not mean,… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“We all have heard about ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary situations. They act courageously or responsibly, and their efforts are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point; to shatter and annihilate that… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“If you honor the moments by not wasting them, the Time will honor you back by remembering you as the hero, for… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
