I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that… — Salman Khan 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
Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the United States, violence and heroism have been made synonymous except when it comes to blacks, and” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Regarding heroism, I grew up in a culture where you learn about heroes and heroines all the time. In a way, when… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
Being Kind Not in some great deed of heroism; not in some great speech or act that may be pointed to with… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The definition of a hero changes depending on the needs of the person with the dictionary. And of late I’ve become more… — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
Heroism is not blind courage: it is selfless action. it is knowing the odds are stacked against you, but feeling that you… — John Baldoni Copy Share Image
'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism… — James Spader Copy Share Image
“I hear civilians saying we’re all heroes, heard someone… was it Arthur Godfrey on Armed Forces Radio? I can’t recall, but it’s… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
“Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated… — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
Captain Richard Phillips of the good ship Maersk Alabama - and Sully Sullenberger splashing down his crippled airliner in the Hudson River… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
“There was a slight noise from the direction of the dim corner where the ladder was. It was the king descending. I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It is impossible to put into words what we have been through. What happened exceeded our boldest dreams. The Germans fled twice… — Mordechai Anielewicz Copy Share Image
The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic. — Elbert Hubbard 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
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
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
“We praise heroes as though they are rare, and yet we are always ready to blame another man for lack of heroism.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“If we stop breathing, we'll die. If we stop fighting our enemies, the world will die.” — Philip G. Epstein Copy Share Image
“There are those who hold first rankers and there are those who are heroes.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Heroes care. True heroism, as the ancients understood, isn’t about strength, or boldness, or even courage. It’s about compassion.” — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
There are people to whom heroism under fire comes naturally and seemingly without effort, but Patton was not one of them. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“The creation of one's own religion – the art of crafting one's own form of heroism – is among the highest of… — VD Copy Share Image
Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What neither the reader nor Stone would accept was that his self-amputation was as much and act of conceit as it was… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image