However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
If you put your life on the line on a daily basis to help protect and save lives, you are a story… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I think heroism comes in different packages. The superhero package is one that we're familiar with. — Deborah Ann Woll Copy Share Image
Do everything for Love. Thus there will be no little things: everything will be big. Perseverance in little things for Love is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices Are fathered by our heroism. Virtues Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes.” — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Most travel disasters turn into something else: a story of survival, a story of bravery, of heroism, sometimes villainy. You just don't… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one… — Robert Mueller Copy Share Image
“Science fiction and fantasy literature has always been defined by tales of heroism. It is meant to represent humanity at our very… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
“By the way, don't 'weep inwardly' and get a sore throat. If you must weep, weep: a good honest howl! I suspect… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Heroes aren't born, but they are created in times of strife and struggle. Everyone is capable of being a hero in their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality – there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Australians are not given to applauding tragedy unless it is at a distance like Gallipoli or Cooper's Creek, and they prefer pure… — Geoffrey Dutton Copy Share Image
What can I do now? What am I to become? How can I live in this world I'm condemned to but can't… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“I do not wish to give the impression by what I have said that, behind all the intemperance and extravagance of these… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse--a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment's insulting… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
If in heroic conduct, whether of warriors, philosophers or scientists, we see what is of essential nature, then we know that all… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative… — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and… — Joshua Chamberlain 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
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
“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
Heroism is a matter of integrity--beco ming more and more at each step ourselves. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. — Thomas Carlyle 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
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
Some of us need to learn to be heroes to ourselves before we can be that for others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My friends wanted their names in the list of employees of some company, well I wanted my name in the list of… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
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