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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 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
Luthiel: I cannot change what will happen. I can only change how I act in the face of it.
— Robert Fanney
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
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
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
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
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
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
— Umberto Eco
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
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 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
The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting.
— Stephanie Zacharek
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
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
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
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
