War is hell, but sometimes in the midst of that hell men do things that heaven itself must be proud of. A hand grenade is hurled into a group of men. One of the men...

Heroism doesn’t pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.

I’m a fucking coward.””Maybe.” Craw jerked his thumb over his shoulder at Whirrun’s corpse. “There’s a hero. Tell me who’s better off.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

By the way, don’t ‘weep inwardly’ and get a sore throat. If you must weep, weep: a good honest howl! I suspect we – and especially, my sex – don’t cry enough now-a-days. Aeneas and...

Heroes are higher than their vulnerability that is why they are heroes.

Starting and profitably running a business is not just some achievement, it is heroism.

For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.

Deeds of heroism are wrought here more than those of romance, when, defying torture, and braving death itself, the fugitive voluntarily threads his way back to the terrors and perils of that dark land, that...

Rostov kept thinking about that brilliant feat of his, which, to his surprise, had gained him the St. George Cross and even given him the reputation of a brave man – and there was something...

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself

panglima sebelum terlewat, pintakukembalilah ke medan perangjika kau masih memilih menjadi pejuang.(Catatan di Kertas Lusuh Buat Panglima Perang)

In the matter of spirit follow the Gods, in the matter of work follow the heroes.

A true hero make people feel like he is part of their family.

Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero!No, Andrea….unhappy is the land that needs a hero.

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

There are so many unsung heroines and heroes at this broken moment in our collective story, so many courageous persons who, unbeknownst to themselves, are holding together the world by their resolute love or contagious...

Heroes are more than just stories, they’re people. And people are complicated; people are strange. Nobody is a hero through and through, there’s always something in them that’ll turn sour… you’ll learn it one day....

They say Alexander the Great slept with ‘The Iliad’ beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an army, I am a wanderer. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ as if it were...

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.

I never encountered any crisis in life, because I solved my problems before they turned into crisis.

My friends wanted their names in the list of employees of some company, well I wanted my name in the list of the heroes of the world.

Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere alikuwa baba kwa familia yake. Kwa Tanzania alikuwa mlezi; wa ndoto ya haki, amani, uzalendo, ujamaa, na uhuru.

We all have heard about ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary situations. They act courageously or responsibly, and their efforts are described as if they opted to act that way on the spur of...

Not every flying hero has a cape.

So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You’re a hero.

When he endures nothing but endless miseries– What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth toward death?Anyone who warms their heart with the glow Of flickering hope is...

Perhaps elements like tenacity and humility combine to form a heroic compound.

Leaders console the world with their speeches, heroes console the world with their actions.

There will never be complete satisfaction in the life, satisfaction is an illusion, there is only heroism.

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

To be a true hero you must be a true Christian. To sum up then, heroism is largely based on two qualities- truthfulness and unselfishness, a readiness to put one’s own pleasures aside for that...

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify – so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as...

I hadn’t realized having ones life saved could be so humiliating.

In the world of so-called villains, what we need is not another hero. What we need is to stop the influx of people who dress themselves as menaces and proceed to harm others.

An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.

Let’s get one thing clear, there may be few or many successful people in your profession, but there is going to be only one hero in that profession.

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes

Finally Marcus stepped forward. “If you insist on going through me to get him, it’s your call. But I warn you, I will probably cry when you hurt me, and you’ll fell bad about it...

We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. I can’t stop pissing on...

Fear breeds cowardice, and cowardice compels bravery.

Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.

For a man who makes his salvation perfect through suffering, is more of a saint and a loving hero of nature.

Acts of heroism are easy—becoming a hero is a bitch.

For happiness don’t pursue satisfaction, but pursue heroism.

Mandela alikuwa hodari ndiyo maana akapelekwa jela. Alikuwa mvumilivu ndiyo maana akakaa jela kwa miaka ishirini na saba. Alivyotoka akawa kiongozi bora wa Afrika Kusini. Utu ukafanya awasamehe binadamu wenzake. Urithi wa Nelson Mandela kwetu...

Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated by the minds of men. The Resurgence of Authority stands opposed to the...

Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.

I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat Tillman… did not have that opportunity. The truth of war is not always easy. The truth...

The noble heart will find no shortage of places to offer itself in martyrdom, but you cannot die on every battlefield.”~ Duncan Sinclair, from The Outcast Highlander