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
“A certain way to have financial security in life is not enough savings, but enough ability.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Everyday heroism is all about doing what we ought to on a daily basis and regardless of the tons of pressures that… — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events. — Georges Lefebvre Copy Share Image
“Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us.” — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love.… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
You picked the right road, even though it is the most difficult. That is the essence of heroism. (p. 326) — Brandon Mull 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
A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ah,the pure shine of a few moments of heroism, high courage, and derring-do! In its light we genuflect before the Hero, we… — Oakley Hall Copy Share Image
... the heroism of the average mother. Ah! When I think of that broad fact, I gather hope again for poor humanity;… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism,… — Jonathan Haidt 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
“In [Bloom's] having managed to sustain his curiosity about the people and the world around him after thirty-eight years of familiarity and… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest itself to our understanding by which it… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
An act of heroism, of extraordinary courage, the grandeur of it, won't easily inspire us to act in imitation, but it can… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“Heroes. Brave men and women who lay down their lives for someone else... Our culture understands heroism. But we don’t understand martyrs.” — DC Talk Copy Share Image
“Finishing work makes you a man, finishing difficult work makes you a hero.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves. — Carol Lynn Pearson Copy Share Image
Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice-- sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Saving others is always more important than saving yourself. It has to be, or none of us would do any good.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as… — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity. — Havelock Ellis 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
“No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Heroism of your father doesn't make you a hero, heroism of you doesn't make your son a hero.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living -… — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
“An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
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