Accidents Quote by William James

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident

— Charles Lamb

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

— Edward Albert

Safety is only an illusion when evil is on the hunt. I cant stand by and watch. I have to act

— Terry Goodkind

As long as you do not hold a balance between your seeing of things and your execution, you will do nothing that is really…

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Even if you've been a coward all your life, death is a heroic act.

— Abi Morgan

Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were…

— John Maynard Keynes

The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified…

— Anonymous

It did seem hard to be doing something heroic while everyone was too busy to notice.

— Frances Hardinge

To me, it's a heroic attribute to be so committed to a principle that you apply it, not when it's easy, not when it…

— Glenn Greenwald

“The other pilot may have been trying to be heroic but each time we pilots sign in to fly an aircraft we are duty-bound,…

— Lim Khoy Hing

I wasn't heroic because I was never in danger.

— Nicholas Winton