Air Quote by Russell Banks

There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.

— Romain Rolland

In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of…

— John Rhys-Davies

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

— Thomas Carlyle

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

We may be the protagonists of tragedy, but we are also the heroes of our most beautiful and thrilling experiences.

— Shin Kyung-sook

On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.

— Nancy Gibbs

We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime, and capable…

— Carolyn Porco

Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny,…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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