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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

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

A hero is not only a brave individual, but a brave individual that dares to be different. — Keely Barton

I almost laugh. My great act of heroism, the only important thing I have ever done, and they think I was working for the Erudite when I did it. — Veronica Roth

The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong. — Susan Faludi

Someone needs to fight,someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero. — Amit Kalantri

The atrocities of war are only overshadowed by the heroism of their dead. — Todd Stocker

We're our own heroes. — Gwenda Bond

The only real heroism is survival, to win the prize that is your own life. — Atef Abu Saif

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

Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them. — Nancy Farmer

Where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it? — China Mieville

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results. — W. Somerset Maugham

I pay tribute to the endless heroism of youth. — Nelson Mandela

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion. — Calvin Coolidge

Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing to do than die! — George Darley

Leaders console the world with their speeches, heroes console the world with their actions. — Amit Kalantri

You don't die when your body stops functioning. You die when your name is uttered for the last time in the world. — Abhijit Naskar

I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today. — David Foster Wallace

In the context of today, this WAS heroism. — John Howard Griffin

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

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

Librarianship is a form of heroism. It's just not as flashy as swords and dragons. — Seanan McGuire

There is more courage and heroism in defying the human impulse, in taking the purposeful and painful steps to prepare for the unimaginable. — Malcolm Gladwell

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

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

Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity. — Havelock Ellis

You have worked too long in the life, now its time for heroism. — Amit Kalantri

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Saving others is always more important than saving yourself. It has to be, or none of us would do any good. — David Levithan

Heroism of your father doesn't make you a hero, heroism of you doesn't make your son a hero. — Amit Kalantri

I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times. — Emma Donoghue

Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem. — Ernest Becker

Most of man's finest heroism is merely disguised necessity. — William Hurrell Mallock

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult. — Albert Camus

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

It's not just children who need heroes. — Tamora Pierce

Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic. — Leif Enger

There is no heroism in sheep. They stand on the hill and go "Baa", as they're being slaughtered. — Skip Coryell

Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany. — Lord Haw Haw

No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism. — Plato

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. — Amit Kalantri

Our country doesn't depend on the heroism of every citizen. But all of us should be worthy of the sacrifices made on our behalf. — John McCain

Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Because that's the ugly truth about heroism: the tests don't start when you're ready or stop when you're tired. — Christopher McDougall

Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us. — James Rozoff

Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion! — Madame De Stael

The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting. — Stephanie Zacharek

I think heroism is when somebody really goes above and beyond the call of duty and does something outstanding for either themselves or somebody else. — John Assaraf

To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism. — Sylvester Stallone

not every praise deserves your full attention — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Heroes give hope. — Amit Kalantri

Sacrifices will make you a martyr, victories will make you a hero. — Amit Kalantri

Ali, of course, hasn't whipped every obstacle in his life. Only enough of them that we remember him as having done so. — Davis Miller

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes — Bertolt Brecht

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

Each life has its share of heroism, an obscure heroism, born of abdication, of renunciation and acceptance under the merciless whip of fate. — Mariama Ba

Love could be soft and understanding; that, soft or hard, love was an act of heroism. And I could no longer predict where I would find my heroes. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery. — Ernest Renan

A hero lives forever for the ones who carry on. — Heather Dale

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. — Natalie Clifford Barney

I belong everywhere and nowhere, and I alone can save two worlds. — Jonathan Friesen

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

Heroism is the antidote to evil. — Philip Zimbardo

Perhaps elements like tenacity and humility combine to form a heroic compound. — Brad Herzog

The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts. — Felix O. Hartmann

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon? — Kathe Kollwitz

It's hard to know what happy is if you're not sure if you've felt it before. — Kelly Thompson

I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars. — Audre Lorde

In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying. — Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up. — Jim Butcher

I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind. — Gene Siskel

Even if only one person's respect for animals increases, then writing Talon would have been worthwhile. — Christopher Gerard

I don't need a reason to save someone — Kazuma Kamachi

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Heroism does not require spiritual maturity. — Abel Hermant

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times. — Angus Wilson

Heroism is a matter of integrity
beco ming more and more at each step ourselves. — Joseph Campbell

I was just trying to be a very good human, instead I became a hero. — Amit Kalantri

Liberty coincides with heroism. It is the asceticism of the great man, the bow bent to the breaking-point. — Albert Camus

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me. — Fred Rogers

She could not be complying, she dreaded being quarrelsome; her heroism reached only to silence. — Jane Austen

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

Heroism was exhausting business. — Joe Hill

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

Mad fearlessness is not courage. The only requirement for courage is a good heart. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Routine is the death to heroism. — P.G. Wodehouse

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

Hate did not give way to heroism. — Evan Meekins

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

In the men I love heroes, in the work I love heroism — Amit Kalantri

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. — William Manchester

War makes persons special, peoples cheap. — Brian Spellman

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. — Gerard Way