The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it. — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
“Heroism is simply the idea of living your life with the passion that it deserves.” — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a “war hero”, because there is nothing about war that is heroic.” — Michelle Templet Copy Share Image
“It’s not that the hero is blind to the dangers of the journey; it’s those dangers that raise the hero in him” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own… — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first… — Rosa DeLauro Copy Share Image
The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty.… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
On the night he died - he was twenty-seven - Basquiat had been planning to see a Run-DMC show. When people asked… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Of what avail are my loftiest thoughts if I have ceased to exist?” there are some will ask; to whom others, it… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Why had he committed this terrible sin? Everything in the world was insignificant compared to what he had lost. Everything in the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Too often in the past, our Armed Forces have returned to Canada from their trials with little fanfare. Not so today. Canadians… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
“Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere alikuwa baba kwa familia yake. Kwa Tanzania alikuwa mlezi; wa ndoto ya haki, amani, uzalendo, ujamaa, na uhuru.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“Find the heroism within yourself to play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Heroism is a label most people get for doing shit they’d never do if they were really thinking about it.” Anna” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“There is more courage and heroism in defying the human impulse, in taking the purposeful and painful steps to prepare for the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You will have relatively less problems to solve, if you don't confuse problems with inconveniences.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon… — Lillian Wald 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
“The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people,… — Nnamdi Azikiwe Copy Share Image
“Hero' is not an official status or designation, but if the world recognize you as a hero, it is the highest honor… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
