Circumstances Quote by Rob Lowe

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.

— Henry David Thoreau

I like characters who aren't typically heroic and come to some sort of epiphany about themselves.

— Brad Anderson

A hero is a normal man,with extraordinary faith.

— Trustory

I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism consists in…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“Heroics is often about putting our life on the line. Ordinary courage is about putting our vulnerability on the line. In today's world, that's…

— Brené Brown

I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these…

— Charlton Heston

If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires -…

— Sydney J. Harris

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

— Thomas Carlyle

“what makes and ordinary person heroic is when they give up the thing they want most”

— Jane Heller

When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Every hero mirrors the time and place in which he lives. He must reflect men's innermost hopes and beliefs in a public way.

— Marshall Fishwick