Compassion Quote by Joseph Addison

From an over-arching point-of-view, in war there is heroism on both sides. Obviously, the victor gets the spoils, the victor gets to write history,…

— Russell Crowe

“So fair a victor, how can I help but be conquered.”

— Alice Borchardt

A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of…

— Gautama Buddha

“How could a decent person ever rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men”

— Laozi

Love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of…

— Luke 6:35

All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there…

— Thomas Carlyle

The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To fight the good fight is one of the bravest and noblest of life's experiences. Not the bloodshed and the battle of man with…

— Hugh B. Brown

There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.

— Scilla Elworthy

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

— Thomas Carlyle

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives…

— Thomas Paine

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