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

If, as has been postulated before, heroism happens when courage meets circumstance, what if the circumstances are mundane?

First you be a hero and then raise your child to be a hero.

No war is ever glorious. Heroes are usually dead. Besides, they rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances.

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.

Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.

The poetry of heroism appeals irresitably to those who don’t go to a war, and even more so to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy

I was hugely impressed… was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn’t know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn’t want to leave until he understood. That’s heroic to me....

Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die.

If monkey became a man, then a man can become a hero.

If you achieve a success not achieved by anyone else and not possible to achieve by anyone else then you are the hero of your generation.

The attitude of uncompromising heroism is attractive, and appeals especially to the dramatic instinct. But the purpose of the serious revolutionary is not personal heroism, nor martyrdom, but the creation of a happier world. Those...

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.

It is not triumph which defines a man, but tragedy. Triumph always brings out the best in men, but tragedy shows us what we are made of.

Baa”, as they’re being slaughtered.

I’ve seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don’t believe in heroism; I know it’s easy and I’ve learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for...

Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress.

Heroism of your father doesn’t make you a hero, heroism of you doesn’t make your son a hero.

I am not a hero. Life has not required it of me.

Duty comes in many forms; at times duty to country may conflict with duty to family. Yet, with a lucid mind the guises can be torn away and in the end, duty becomes but one,...

No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even – perhaps even especially – those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals,...

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.

But one must remember that they were all men with systems. Freud, monumentally hipped on sex (for which he personally had little use) and almost ignorant of Nature: Adler, reducing almost everything to the will...

I asked my Greek chorus about this sort of hero: the Underappreciated Personification of Resolve.

The position of a hero is not for the comparision, it is a reference point

Isn ‘ t it obvious that a person would leave from where he is hated so much? The heroism of staying in such a place is that of a roach which won ‘ t be...

I come in a world of iron…to make a world of gold

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

I was not always that way, but perhaps the shadow Earth, where I spent so many years, mellowed me a bit, and maybe my hitch in the dungeons of Amber reminded me somewhat of the...

The death of Robert G. Ingersoll, on July 21, 1899, was one of the most widely — noted events of that year in the civilized world. It was also one of the most widely and...

People become followers of the God because of his fear, but they become a fan of a hero because of his work.

In the men I love heroes, in the work I love heroism

We have forged the type of bonds that only battle brings.

Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later — the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui — these are the true hero’s enemies,...

Heroism is all about discovering our purpose of life, exercising the Power of ONE and affirming the Power of Intent which we are all blessed with. The Seriousness of intent and Honesty of Purpose can...

I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.

a hero is someone who is hanging on one more minute and making the world a better place

To know how glorious you are, it is only after your death.

To survive in this world, you got to be many times a coward but at least once a hero

Sometimes a hero is unbelievably good for so many but terribly bad for someone else.

Maana halisi ya falsafa ya ‘Nitakuwa tayari kufungwa kwa ajili ya matatizo ya watu’, au Falsafa ya Kufungwa, ni uvutano mkubwa uliopo kati ya Roho Mtakatifu na Roho wa Shetani kwa sisi wanadamu wote. Jambo...

…where’s the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?

he’s stuck with them, so he makes the best of a bad situation. he’s a hero because he makes something good out of a life he doesn’t want.

Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot...

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody

Each one of us has the power — and must develop the will — to be the hero of his own life. We believe in goals, in purposes, in achievement and in the joy of...