“Endurance, after all, was a kind of victory; a kind of heroism, too.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can't wait for a miracle or a hero to save you, you have to be strong and rescue yourself. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
“I never encountered any crisis in life, because I solved my problems before they turned into crisis.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“One courageous act can make you a hero but frequent courageous acts will keep you a hero.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than for a quart of blood, but that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What neither the reader nor Stone would accept was that his self-amputation was as much and act of conceit as it was… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“The major problem of the world is, most of the people are unjustifiably angry and very few are loving.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Where there are wars, where there are divided allegiances, where there are temptations to be resisted, objects of love to be fought… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The spirit of America is a spirit of heroism: risking for others even if the ante is your life, never being broken… — Brian Mast Copy Share Image
In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
“Launching a turnaround takes courage. I cannot measure that and so it is not going to be included in my analysis, but… — Paul Collier Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a… — Michael Arad Copy Share Image
As a career Army bomb technician, I have seen real heroism in the Ranger warfighters I stalked Afghanistan with each night and… — Brian Mast Copy Share Image
Heroism's just doing more than you want to do or think you can. Sometimes it's just doing the crappy things, the unhappy… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murderers, adulterers, and hypocrites of every description.… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I am more than happy to invite my five favorite fictional characters. Let's see. First on my list is Sam Gamgee from… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests,… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero.… — Roland Huntford Copy Share Image
Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Most of man's finest heroism is merely disguised necessity.” — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
“I was just trying to be a very good human, instead I became a hero.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
