Acts of heroism Quote by Anonymous

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see everyday, is perhaps the most difficult act of…

— Anonymous

“To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act…

— Theodore H. White

Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it…

— William J. Clinton

A hero is someone who stands in the community and speaks their hopes and speaks their passion. That's almost an act of heroism nowadays…

— Marianne Williamson

An act of heroism, of extraordinary courage, the grandeur of it, won't easily inspire us to act in imitation, but it can inspire us…

— John McCain

This may not be the path for everyone. But the trust of which we speak is not an act of heroism. it is an…

— William McGurn

Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly…

— Salman Rushdie

Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

— John Lubbock

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my…

— Anonymous

“What neither the reader nor Stone would accept was that his self-amputation was as much and act of conceit as it was an act…

— Abraham Verghese

“love could be soft and understanding; that, soft or hard, love was an act of heroism. And”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

However much of time, labor, or other means it takes to establish a reputation, it frequently happens that it requires nearly as much to…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so…

— Mahatma Gandhi

'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it -…

— Charles Dickens