Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“Vanye: You're asking me to kill you. Luthiel: I'm asking you to save her. ” — Robert Fanney Copy Share Image
“I'm a fucking coward." "Maybe." Craw jerked his thumb over his shoulder at Whirrun's corpse. "There's a hero. Tell me who's better… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
The poetry of heroism appeals irresitably to those who don't go to a war, and even more so to those whom the… — Louis Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I have decorated soldiers for heroism before, and it was always such an honor to do it. — Jack Keane Copy Share Image
Heroism breaks its heart, and idealism its back, on the intransigence of the credulous and the mediocre, manipulated by the cynical and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There comes Coolidge and does nothing and retires a hero, not only because he hadn't done anything, but because he had done… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized,--spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone,… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Heroism and ignominy both are part of our history. The only question is whether, having seen both, we can repent of the… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
“A hero sacrifices for the greater good. A hero is true to his or her conscience. In short, heroism means doing the… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
A hero is someone who stands in the community and speaks their hopes and speaks their passion. That's almost an act of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“This is not to say that the point of the hard way is that we must be heroic. The attitude of "heroism"… — Chögyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“You carry the hopes of humanity into the realm of the eternal. Monsters never die. They are reborn from the chaos and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And you came back to Lyrian?" Galloran said in disbelief. "Believe it or not, I came through the same hippopotamus that brought… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“And here before me stands a marvelously groomed little man who is pinning a hero's medal on me because some of his… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“That summer, Titanic fever gripped Kabul. People smuggled pirated copies of the film from Pakistan- sometimes in their underwear. After curfew, everyone… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“From this Legionary school a new man will have to emerge, a man with heroic qualities; a giant of our history to… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
“Heroes are hero no matter if everybody is watching them or nobody watching them.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Feminist art... will take the great human themes – love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself – and render them fully human. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
“Heroism wasn't about what you could do, it was about what you did. It was about who you saved when they needed… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. — William James Copy Share Image
Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism. — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Copy Share Image
“The definition of a hero changes depending on the needs of the person with the dictionary.” — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
“There will never be complete satisfaction in the life, satisfaction is an illusion, there is only heroism.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting. — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
“Besides, I did not require heroism--I had been the hero of my own life for some time.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
