There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Starting and profitably running a business is not just some achievement, it is heroism.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
War was a way of life for Americans in the early forties. Heroism was expected. — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
“The definition of a good man is someone who makes the moral choice when temptation invites him to do otherwise. The definition… — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
There are no more heroes in America. Because of the Internet, heroism has become momentary and within seconds someone who we should… — Tommy Mottola Copy Share Image
“Christian heroism, and indeed one perhaps sees little enough of that, is to risk unreservedly being oneself, an individual human being, this… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Stories are the preferred way human beings learn and define our values. In our stories we find heroes whose larger than life… — Douglas M. Beaumont Copy Share Image
To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
John Wells and Christopher Chulack were pretty honest from the get-go in our first meeting about 'Southland.' They were looking to create… — Shawn Hatosy Copy Share Image
Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold,… — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
“I know that my buddy Jorgeson was a real American hero. I wish that he had lived to be something else, if… — Thom Jones Copy Share Image
“We find a model for learning how to live in stories about heroism. The heroic quest is about saying yes to yourself… — Carol S. Pearson Copy Share Image
For black people in the western hemisphere, if you can't generate a mythology that creates models of heroism and power out of… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“I'm not the girl who inspires men to commit acts of heroism. In real life those girls speak much more quietly and… — Becca Wilhite Copy Share Image
What is the commonest, and yet the least remembered form of heroism? The heroism of an average mother. Ah! when I think… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The less you demand total fulfillment from relationships, the more you can appreciate them for the beautiful tapestries they are, in which… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
“It was a symposium of horror and heroism, the like of which has not been known in the civilized world since man… — The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters Copy Share Image
A hero is not a movie character. Hero is an ordinary person who finds the strength and courage to persevere and keep… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Heroism is not fighting some big battle. It is not standing up to some fearsome foe ... Heroism is every day getting… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Your hero is unable to hold his wine, I see,' observed Serpentine, dispassionately. 'He is not my hero,' said Door. 'I'm afraid… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Don't aim at any impossible heroisms. Strive rather to be quiet in your own sphere. Don't live in the cloudland of some… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
The woman who led [downed airmen] was named Andrée De Jongh and her story - one of heroism and peril and astounding… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume ... that we really know the score…… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Why do you demand of me a heroism that perhaps you have not either? It is despotism; it is tyranny. If I… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The noble heart will find no shortage of places to offer itself in martyrdom, but you cannot die on every battlefield.” ~… — R.L. Syme Copy Share Image
“I decided to do the easy task of changing situations and conditions by being a hero, than staying back to do the… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
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![“Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume ... that we really know the score… [But] this is not an easy assignment. [As] Santayana wrote, 'Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one's equation written out.'” quote by Gordon Allport](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3b/gordon-allport-29384_assignments_since-we-think-about-ourselves-so-much-o_1110919.jpg)
