Stamping down the weakness of mind and heart, stand up, saying, "I am possessed of heroism, I am possessed of a steady… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We couldn't all be cowboys, some of us are clowns. Some of us are dancers on the midway, we roam from town… — Counting Crows 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
'Heroism' is not the same as coping. A man who does his job properly and succeeds through his own efforts is definitely… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I do a lot of book signings and conventions every year, and I meet a great many readers who are struggling... they're… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying. — Roswell Dwight Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly towards an object, and in no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
... many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St.… — A. E. Hotchner Copy Share Image
African American patriotic heroism is always a curious spectacle. Often white political observers and politicians will praise Black people for their bravery,… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their… — Frederick The Great 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
I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder. Theyall want to be heroes and all we want is for them… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For black people in the western hemisphere, if you can't generate a mythology that creates models of heroism and power out of… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
