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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

There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms. — Seneca The Younger

Heroism, generally, is totally out of place in the spiritual life, until we grow to the point at which it would never be thought of as heroism anyway. — Dallas Willard

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

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

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

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

The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution. — Joseph Campbell

At what point do we admit that the NFL's true economic function is to channel our desire for athletic heroism into an engine of nihilistic greed? — Steve Almond

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

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

Luthiel: I cannot change what will happen. I can only change how I act in the face of it. — Robert Fanney

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

What neither the reader nor Stone would accept was that his self-amputation was as much and act of conceit as it was an act of heroism p 61 — Abraham Verghese

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

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

There is only one way fit for a man
Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand. — C.S. Lewis

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

It is in the book of man, not the book of god, that we must look for examples of heroism, love, pity, justice, truth, honor, humanity. — M. M. Mangasarian

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

I think heroism comes in different packages. The superhero package is one that we're familiar with. — Deborah Ann Woll

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

To persevere with the will to understand in the face of obstacles is the heroism of consciousness. — Nathaniel Branden

The will to be oneself is heroism — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

There will never be complete satisfaction in the life, satisfaction is an illusion, there is only heroism. — Amit Kalantri

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more. — Michio Kaku

Self trust is the essence of heroism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear ... Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism — Khaled Hosseini

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 believe that the attacks on your life have much more to do with who you might be in the future than who you have been in the past. — Lisa Bevere

That's the beginning of heroism, the decision to try. — Gregory Maguire

The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events. — Georges Lefebvre

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

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. — Umberto Eco

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man. — Ayn Rand

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

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

I asked my Greek chorus about this sort of hero: the Underappreciated Personification of Resolve. — Brad Herzog

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

Heroes are the most wanted and most needed people in the world. — Amit Kalantri

He was having, under trying circumstances, the best time he could, which is one definition of heroism; — Peter Straub

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express. — Marya Mannes

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule. — Miguel De Unamuno

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

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

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

My whole life, I prepared to come down in order to save the world above.. Now I have to ascend to save the world below.. — Jonathan Friesen

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

Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon. — George A. Sheehan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Heroism is the antidote to evil. — Philip Zimbardo

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

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

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

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them. — Steve Alten

A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all. — Matthew Fox

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

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The truth is people are an extraordinary mixture of heroism and cowardice. — Agatha Christie

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

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

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

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

There are no heroes here, at least not of the Schindler's List variety, but there are glimmers of heroism and people who behave with unexpected grace. — Erik Larson

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

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

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

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

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

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