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There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.
— David Gemmell
Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can't possibly act on.
— Stefan Molyneux
Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A hero is not only a brave individual, but a brave individual that dares to be different.
— Keely Barton
The poetry of heroism holds an irresistible appeal for people who aren't involved in a war, especially when they're making piles of money out of one.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Someone needs to fight,someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero.
— Amit Kalantri
Heroism is about taking an action which represents a breakthrough, and then assuming full responsiblity for it, even if it's a failure.
— Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof
The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.
— Joseph Campbell
I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.
— Thor Heyerdahl
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
— Simone De Beauvoir
Friends, we have a hero living among us.
— Jorge Amado
To struggle is a sacred act, indeed it is the only act that has ever changed the world.
— Drew Jacob
Find the heroism within yourself to play out the hand you've been dealt.The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. — Darren Shan
What makes a hero truly great is that they never despair.
— Roy Thompson
First you be a hero and then raise your child to be a hero.
— Amit Kalantri
He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.
— James A. Garfield
a hero is someone who is hanging on one more minute and making the world a better place
— Samuel Cole
Not every flying hero has a cape.
— Michael Jordan
I guess a little bit hero is enough. A little bit hero is all anyone really needs to be.
— Alexander Gordon Smith
Acts of heroism are easy - becoming a hero is a bitch.
— Adam Johnson
On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.
— Nancy Gibbs
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. — Joe Abercrombie
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
— Umberto Eco
There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.
— Jacques Maritain
Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them? that it was a vain endeavor?
— Henry David Thoreau
In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.
— Jim Butcher
To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.
— Richard Thompson
Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.
— William J. Clinton
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.
— Natalie Standiford
The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.
— Miguel De Unamuno
The world needs heroes. Be a hero and build your part of the world.
— Abhijit Naskar
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
— William Hazlitt
I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.
— George Carlin
It only takes a second to be someone's first hero.
— Robert J. Braathe
Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.
— John F. Kennedy
A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing.
— Warren Eyster
A Hero: A Moment When You're Bigger Than Yourself.
— H. L. Balcomb
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?
— David Benioff
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.
— Cressida Cowell
Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
— William James
Mad fearlessness is not courage. The only requirement for courage is a good heart.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
All our heroism stems from our womenfolk. A man without a woman is like a pistol without a hammer;;the woman sparks the charge
— Victor Hugo
Heroism isn't a one time thing: Live Heroically.
— Jim MacLaren
Heroism of your father doesn't make you a hero, heroism of you doesn't make your son a hero.
— Amit Kalantri
As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.
— Alan Moore
Endurance, after all, was a kind of victory; a kind of heroism, too.
— Orson Scott Card
Heroism is a label most people get for doing shit they'd never do if they were really thinking about it.
— James S.A. Corey
The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.
— Kathryn Bigelow
Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.
— David Ben-Gurion
Everyday heroism is all about doing what we ought to on a daily basis and regardless of the tons of pressures that come on our way.
— Assegid Habtewold
A hero lives forever for the ones who carry on.
— Heather Dale
So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero.
— Joe Abercrombie
In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.
— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
I don't need a reason to save someone
— Kazuma Kamachi
Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
— John Lubbock
A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
— Victor Hugo
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
— Thomas Carlyle
Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero!No, Andrea ... unhappy is the land that needs a hero. — Bertolt Brecht
Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.
— James Geary
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.
— Jocelyn Murray
Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?
— J.M. Coetzee
One courageous act can make you a hero but frequent courageous acts will keep you a hero.
— Amit Kalantri
Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.
— George A. Sheehan
A hero is a person who, without a second thought, simply does the right thing because his conscience cannot live with any other choice.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than for a quart of blood, but that is not the market that heroes carry their blood to.
— Henry David Thoreau
I am not a hero. Life has not required it of me.
— Geraldine Brooks
There is no such thing as a conservative hero.
— Christopher Moore
Nobody who says, 'I told you so' has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting.
— Stephanie Zacharek
Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes