The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. — William Manchester Copy Share Image
Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“There was the potential for evil everywhere, and the only way to combat it was if more people chose goodness. If more… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can't wait for someone else to save you. You have to be the hero that saves yourself. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
It is in the book of man, not the book of god, that we must look for examples of heroism, love, pity,… — M. M. Mangasarian Copy Share Image
“Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Stamping down the weakness of mind and heart, stand up, saying, "I am possessed of heroism, I am possessed of a steady… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point; to shatter and annihilate that… — Joseph Campbell 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
“Don't you get it? Can you imagine the...the heroism? That's what grace is all about. He didn't even think for one second… — Charles Sheehan-Miles 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
If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Finally Marcus stepped forward. "If you insist on going through me to get him, it's your call. But I warn you, I… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
“{Letter from Debbs to Eva Ingersoll, husband of Robert Ingersoll , just after the news of Robert's death} We were inexpressibly shocked… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Only the violent acts of men "count" toward something besides evil in a patriarchy. It is the male story of violence that… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“Gentlemen- by which I mean, of course, latter adolescents who aspire to manhood gentlemen, here is a truth: Enduring tedium over real… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Frankly, Django is an American story that needs to be told, when you think of slavery existing in this country for 245… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating,… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; his origin, his growth, his hopes… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict. — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
“If you achieve a success not achieved by anyone else and not possible to achieve by anyone else then you are the… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!” — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic. — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
[On gay ban in the military:] Heroism, I believe, is a trait that does not know race, color, creed, sex, or sexual… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
“Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
When you feel like hope is gone, Look inside you and be strong. And you'll finally see the truth, That a hero… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Heroism is a matter of integrity--beco ming more and more at each step ourselves. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so . — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem. — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
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