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

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.