Biology Quote by Christopher McDougall

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

— James Geary

Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with…

— Isabel Allende

Heroism's just doing more than you want to do or think you can. Sometimes it's just doing the crappy things, the unhappy things other…

— Nora Roberts

Heroism is about taking an action which represents a breakthrough, and then assuming full responsiblity for it, even if it's a failure.

— Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse--a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment's insulting radiance, it…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Heroism in a bad cause.

— Karel Reisz

I think heroism is when somebody really goes above and beyond the call of duty and does something outstanding for either themselves or somebody…

— John Assaraf

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My wife Lorrie actually looked in the dictionary to see what the definition was of heroism because it had been used so much. She…

— Chesley Sullenberger

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as…

— Angus Wilson

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

— Napoleon Bonaparte