In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that.

Cowards are always much more dangerous than heroes.

Launching a turnaround takes courage. I cannot measure that and so it is not going to be included in my analysis, but behind the moments of change there are always a few people within these...

Never say war insane at the moment for you to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind.

A certain way to have financial security in life is not enough savings, but enough ability.

People have seen too many common people like them, and they are bored by it. They need heroes.

Nitajisikia raha sana kufungwa kwa ajili ya matatizo watu.

I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I...

On his bedside table, between the reading lamp and the telephone, was his battered copy of David Copperfield. Homer didn’t have to open the book to know how the story began. “Whether I shall turn...

Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.

Most of man’s finest heroism is merely disguised necessity.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man’s cruelty and...

Heroes may die but they doesn’t get tired.

After September 11th, I never much liked the trend of everyone and his brother wearing the hats and jackets of the NYPD and FDNY. Only the people who do the job should get to wear...

Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death.

Schizofrenia pana la ultima ei limita, refuzul total al oricarei realitati decat cea a visului, al oricarui adevar decat al viziunii.

It may not feel too classy, begging just to eat But you know who does that?Lassie, and she always gets a treat So you wonder what your part is Because you’re homeless and depressed But...

Dear Hunger Games :Screw you for helping cowards pretend you have to be great with a bow to fight evil.You don’t need to be drafted into a monkey-infested jungle to fight evil.You don’t need your...

Sometimes stories get on my nerves–especially the ones where unfair things keep happening to the hero over and over, for no reason at all, and he valiantly overcomes it all.Life isn’t like that.Not every hero...

I decided to do the easy task of changing situations and conditions by being a hero, than staying back to do the difficult task of changing people by being just a man.

Everything is going to be fine now because heroes are here.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Gentlemen- by which I mean, of course, latter adolescents who aspire to manhood gentlemen, here is a truth: Enduring tedium over real time in a confined space is what real courage is. Such endurance is,...

Quisiera que todo el mundo supiese que no ha habido héroes anónimos. Eran personas con su nombre, su rostro, sus anhelos y sus esperanzas, y el dolor del último de los últimos no ha sido...

Life bends us, shapes us, molds us, makes us, and breaks us.” ~Lucian Bane~

Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them — are ruinous!

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits...

Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it.

Today is my last day as a human, tomorrow I am going to be a hero.

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

From this Legionary school a new man will have to emerge, a man with heroic qualities; a giant of our history to do battle and win over all the enemies of our Fatherland, his battle...

What is heroic is not making life any harder that it has to be.

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don’t listen to their words, but watch their actions.

Forgotten hero was never the real hero, real hero can not be forgotten.

In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so fuckin’ heroic.

Genuine bravery occurs when you least expect it, and when, in fact, you’re quite oblivious of it. Sometimes heroism happens when you press on; other times when you let go. Once in a while, it...

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn’t look like there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, he’s going to keep digging, he’s going to keep trying to do right and...

Out of the temptation of Hate, and burned by the fire of Despair, triumphant over Doubt, and steeled by Sacrifice against Humiliation, . . . He bent to all the gibes and prejudices, to all...

Sometimes I wonder about good and evil. If the villain wins, isn’t he heralded as the hero? I’ve tried so hard to be good since that day, but sometimes I wonder whether it’s even worth...

You will have relatively less problems to solve, if you don’t confuse problems with inconveniences.

If you are the hero of your family, there is very good chance that one day you will be the hero of the world.

To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism.

Hate did not give way to heroism.

Sin embargo, aunque muertos viviremos en un pequeño rincón de vuestra felicidad, porque por esa felicidad hemos dado nuestra vida.

That summer, Titanic fever gripped Kabul. People smuggled pirated copies of the film from Pakistan- sometimes in their underwear. After curfew, everyone locked their doors, turned out the lights, turned down the volume, and reaped...

Those who did better were those who didn’t wait idly for help to arrive. In the end, with systems crashing and failing, what mattered most and had the greatest immediate effects were the actions and...

Pain provides an opportunity for heroism; the opportunity is seized with surprising frequency.