“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
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
“Heroes care. True heroism, as the ancients understood, isn’t about strength, or boldness, or even courage. It’s about compassion.” — Christopher McDougall 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
“The creation of one's own religion – the art of crafting one's own form of heroism – is among the highest of… — VD Copy Share Image
“We praise heroes as though they are rare, and yet we are always ready to blame another man for lack of heroism.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“There are those who hold first rankers and there are those who are heroes.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“If we stop breathing, we'll die. If we stop fighting our enemies, the world will die.” — Philip G. Epstein Copy Share Image
It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil. — Peter Kreeft 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
If sub specie aeternitatis [from eternity's point of view] there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
The future of modern society depends much more on the quiet heroism of the very few who are inspired by God. These… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Heroism, or military glory, is much admired by the generality of mankind. They consider it as the most sublime kind of merit.… — David Hume Copy Share Image
His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. Like them, he was slandered… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
Heroism is an extraordinary feat of the flesh; holiness is an ordinary act of the spirit. One may bring personal glory; the… — Charles Colson 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
“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
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
And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer,… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
“Successful leaders are like icebergs. When you look at an iceberg, you see only about 10 percent of it, and the rest… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Heroism is found in the person willing to do what is right, who lets go of the opinions of others and trusts… — Kate Moorehead Copy Share Image
“To survive in this world, you got to be many times a coward but at least once a hero” — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences. — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before. — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that. — John Green Copy Share Image