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.

Heroes are hero no matter if everybody is watching them or nobody watching them.

Finishing work makes you a man, finishing difficult work makes you a hero.

It was a tragic end to a heroic life.

To struggle is a sacred act, indeed it is the only act that has ever changed the world.

Words of the hero: “I am my fate.

So the difference between a criminal and a hero is the order in which their vile crimes are committed. And justice comes with a sell-by date. In that case, you’d better hurry. You wouldn’t want...

If the only one who can kill an angel can’t do it, then who can?’ It’s a good question, one that takes me a minute to come up with an answer. ‘Obadiah West can. Him...

The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn’t produce a hero to look upto.

As a general man I tried watching movies, playing sports, going to picnics and other entertainments but I still got bored, then I tried heroism and now I am hero, and I never get bored.

And you came back to Lyrian?” Galloran said in disbelief.”Believe it or not, I came through the same hippopotamus that brought me here the first time. Jumped into the tank on purpose. I wanted to...

Diese Haltung zur Opferung von Menschenleben ist seltsam. Militärbefehlshaber überlegen nicht zweimal, wenn sie Soldaten in die Schlacht schicken und dabei genau wissen, dass viele von ihnen sterben werden. […] Andererseits verbietet es der Offiziersethos,...

I don’t need a reason to save someone

A hero is an ordinary human being who does the best of things in the worst of times.

In my experience, when a woman’s cruelty is combined with love and devotion, it is almost always without exception an act performed not out of treachery, but as a painful self-sacrifice for the good of...

It’s not just children who need heroes.

Targets are achieved sooner out of need, than out of greed.

One courageous act can make you a hero but frequent courageous acts will keep you a hero.

Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal?

And it’s funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people.

Pues el deber humano no termina con esta lucha y ser hombre exigirá, también en el futuro, un corazón heroico, hasta que los hombres sean completamente hombres.

Heroes didn’t leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn’t wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were...

In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: “In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I’m treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, ‘Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?’No,'”...

Though much is taken, much abides; and thoughWe are not now that strength which in old daysMoved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;One equal temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by time and...