Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
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
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
Neil Armstrong today takes his place in the hall of heroes. The moon will miss its first son of earth. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
In all their wars against the French they [the Americans] never showed such conduct, attention and perseverance as they do now. — Thomas Gage Copy Share Image
“Finishing work makes you a man, finishing difficult work makes you a hero.” — Amit Kalantri 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
“That is something we must never forget; although others may show heroism in the war or against the Germans, our helpers display… — Anne Frank 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
I am a strong believer that modern political life must rediscover a sense for symbolism. We need to develop a kind of… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I… — Albert Camus 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
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
“Deeds of heroism are wrought here more than those of romance, when, defying torture, and braving death itself, the fugitive voluntarily threads… — Harriet Beecher Stowe 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
[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
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
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
“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
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
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