“Each one of us has the power — and must develop the will — to be the hero of his own life.… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
Men have said that the cross of Christ was not a heroic thing, but I want to tell you that the cross… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the… — Rosa DeLauro Copy Share Image
The bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
I wouldn't characterize anybody who fought in Vietnam as a war hero. In 23 bombing sorties, there must have been civilians that… — Medea Benjamin Copy Share Image
Courage doesn't always involve physical heroism in the face of death. It doesn't always require giant leaps worthy of celebration. Sometimes, courage… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an army, I am a… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like 'democracy,' 'freedom,' 'rights,' 'justice,' which have so… — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
“Duty comes in many forms; at times duty to country may conflict with duty to family. Yet, with a lucid mind the… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's… — William James Copy Share Image
“But God's the reason for everything noble and fine and heroic. If you had a God …" "My dear young friend," said… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you’re somehow able to look… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
“A friend once asked me why it was that stories about animals and their heroism...are so compelling. ...we love them because they're… — Gwen Cooper Copy Share Image
Hence the importance of patience in the New Testament, which becomes the basic constituent of Christianity, more central even than humility: the… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
“When Hitler marched across the Rhine To take the land of France, La dame de fer decided, ‘Let’s make the tyrant dance.’… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Gentlemen, here is a truth: Enduring tedium over real time in a confined space is what real courage is… True heroism is… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Today the economic development of Armenia is as important as victory in the war was yesterday. Our battle has moved from the… — Vazgen Sargsyan Copy Share Image
War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“We’ve made a wrong place for fathers in the world, so they throw their lives at heroisms and braveries and wars, and… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Trump would have us revise and edit our historical memory of 9/11, turning it from a unifying narrative of heroism, tragedy, and… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
On September 11, 2001, America suffered an unimaginable tragedy and witnessed the incredible heroism of hundreds of first responders who rushed into… — Lucy McBath Copy Share Image
Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not… — John Green Copy Share Image
I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Through action, a Man becomes a Hero. Through death, a Hero becomes a Legend. Through time, a Legend becomes a Myth. By… — Grant Hope Copy Share Image
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Isn't it only natural to leave a place where one is so bitterly hated?...The heroism involved in staying put in spite of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The stories we tell each other and the stories we tell about heroism, about magic, about faith - those things say a… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How do they manage to go on living?…By loving life. And-in spite of everything-by loving God. By having enough faith to start… — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
Riddick is an antihero. He's the quintessential antihero. We all know how much I love antiheroes. It takes you 45 minutes in… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero;… — Irwin Edman Copy Share Image
The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
