Hero Quote by George Santayana Download Open image “Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.” — George Santayana ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hero Heroism Lying Oneself Shouting
'Heroism' is not the same as coping. A man who does his job properly and succeeds through his own efforts is definitely to be… — Jeff Cooper 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 must do… — John Baldoni 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 good. Heroism… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It's not easy to be a hero. You do it because of what you believe, not because of what other people deserve. — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
If you look inside yourself, and you believe, you can be your own hero. — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.” — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
'Melanin Man' was inspired by the words of an Uber driver in L.A. Before I got out of the car he said, 'They're scared… — Masego Copy Share Image
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“A hero is not know by the number of battles he has won, but rather by the kind of battles he chooses to fight.” — Tonny K. Brown Copy Share Image
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Forgotten hero was never the real hero, real hero can not be forgotten.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
