100 Quotes About Heroism

People are often more courageous than they know. Have you ever had the urge to do something amazing but didn’t have the nerve to take action? These heroism quotes will inspire you to be courageous and show the world your worth.

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It may not feel too classy, begging just to eat But you know who does that? Lassie, and she always gets a treat So you wonder what your part is Because you're homeless and depressed But home is where the heart is So your real home's in your chest Everyone's a hero in their own way Everyone's got villains they must face They're not as cool as mine But folks you know it's fine to know your place Everyone's a hero in their own way In their own not-that-heroic way So I thank my girlfriend Penny Yeah, we totally had sex She showed me there's so many different muscles I can flex There's the deltoids of compassion, There's the abs of being kind It's not enough to bash in heads You've got to bash in minds Everyone's a hero in their own way Everyone's got something they can do Get up go out and fly Especially that guy, he smells like poo Everyone's a hero in their own way You and you and mostly me and you I'm poverty's new sheriff And I'm bashing in the slums A hero doesn't care if you're a bunch of scary alcoholic bums Everybody! Everyone's a hero in their own way Everyone can blaze a hero's trail Don't worry if it's hard If you're not a friggin 'tard you will prevail Everyone's a hero in their own way Everyone's a hero in their.. Joss Whedon
In the action business, when you don't want to say...
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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
Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded...
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Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up. Jim Butcher
To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen...
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To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions. Amit Kalantri
The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce...
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The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto. Amit Kalantri
Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it...
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Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner. Amit Kalantri
When you feel like hope is gone, look inside you...
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When you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you. Mariah Carey
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For what are in reality the things we call ‘Wisdom, ’ ‘Virtue, ’ ‘Heroism, ’ ‘sublime hours, ’ and ‘great moments of life, ’ but the moments when we have more or less issued forth from ourselves, and have been able to halt, be it only for an instant, on the step of one of the eternal gates whence we see that the faintest cry, the most colourless thought, and most nerveless gestures do not drop into nothingness; … . Maurice Maeterlinck
Someone needs to fight, someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs...
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Someone needs to fight, someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero. Amit Kalantri
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes Bertolt Brecht
You are a Hero. Be Heroic. Always.
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You are a Hero. Be Heroic. Always. Vineet Raj Kapoor
I'm not going to lie: there are no good options...
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I'm not going to lie: there are no good options here. Jackson Lanzing
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A Hero: A Moment When You’re Bigger Than Yourself. H.L. Balcomb
Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And...
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Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool. Emm Cole
Vanye: You're asking me to kill you. Luthiel: I'm asking...
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Vanye: You're asking me to kill you. Luthiel: I'm asking you to save her. Robert Fanney
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an...
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Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Alfred Tennyson
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When Hitler marched across the RhineTo take the land of France, La dame de fer decided, ‘ Let’s make the tyrant dance.’ Let him take the land and city, The hills and every flower, One thing he will never have, The elegant Eiffel Tower.The French cut the cables, The elevators stood still, ‘ If he wants to reach the top, Let him walk it, if he will.’ The invaders hung a swastika The largest ever seen. But a fresh breeze blew And away it flew, Never more to be seen. They hung up a second mark, Smaller than the first, But a patriot climbed With a thought in mind:‘ Never your duty shirk.’ Up the iron lady He stealthily made his way, Hanging the bright tricolour, He heroically saved the day. Then, for some strange reason, A mystery to this day, Hitler never climbed the tower, On the ground he had to stay. At last he ordered she be razed Down to a twisted pile. A futile attack, for still she stands Beaming her metallic smile. E.a. Bucchianeri
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Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer? Roman Payne
Never mind the mistakes. One day they will become your...
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Never mind the mistakes. One day they will become your most prized possessions. Abhijit Naskar
Heroism doesn’t always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes...
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Heroism doesn’t always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history. Sometimes a chicken can save a man’s life. Mary Roach
Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be...
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Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done–that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward. Piers Anthony
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Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows out the candle; a women terrified of the pain of childbirth who says, 'It is time to become a mother'. Heroism does not always live on the battlefield. David Gemmell
There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the...
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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
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The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past. It is propelled towards the coming time; it is, in the exact words of the popular phrase, knocked into the middle of next week. And the goad which drives it on thus eagerly is not an affectation for futurity Futurity does not exist, because it is still future. Rather it is a fear of the past; a fear not merely of the evil in the past, but of the good in the past also. The brain breaks down under the unbearable virtue of mankind. There have been so many flaming faiths that we cannot hold; so many harsh heroisms that we cannot imitate; so many great efforts of monumental building or of military glory which seem to us at once sublime and pathetic. The future is a refuge from the fierce competition of our forefathers. The older generation, not the younger, is knocking at our door. It is agreeable to escape, as Henley said, into the Street of By-and-Bye, where stands the Hostelry of Never. It is pleasant to play with children, especially unborn children. The future is a blank wall on which every man can write his own name as large as he likes; the past I find already covered with illegible scribbles, such as Plato, Isaiah, Shakespeare, Michael Angelo, Napoleon. I can make the future as narrow as myself; the past is obliged to be as broad and turbulent as humanity. And the upshot of this modern attitude is really this: that men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back. G.k. Chesterton
Do what you will. I do not fear death.
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Do what you will. I do not fear death. Elizabeth Carlton
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Did you know you could destroy dragons? Dragons are not actually real, they just roar to scare you away from your goals. In fact they are afraid of determined heroes, they take flight at their approach Bangambiki Habyarimana
You know we are living in dangerous time when the...
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You know we are living in dangerous time when the act of kindness is revered as an act of heroism. Micheline Jean Loui
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One person on their own may be able to save the world. But a team of friends, all working together, have a much greater chance of succeeding…providing that no-one succumbs to evil.’ Adele Rose, Awakening. Unknown
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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, '" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes. Stephen E. Ambrose
I'm a fucking coward.
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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 atrocities of war are only overshadowed by the heroism...
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The atrocities of war are only overshadowed by the heroism of their dead. Todd Stocker
This last best luck of all: that earth should gape...
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This last best luck of all: that earth should gape for me when my great deeds were ended. E.R. Eddison
Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow....
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Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman. Roman Payne
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They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an army, I am a wanderer. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman. Roman Payne
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Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero. Unknown
A heroic act is not always followed by glory and...
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A heroic act is not always followed by glory and parades and forever freedom, ” she said. “It’s often small, disregarded, or forgotten. But it matters. Shannon A. Thompson
Better an unsung HERO than the source of envy.
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Better an unsung HERO than the source of envy. Haresh Sippy
You are no greater than the friends you keep, the...
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You are no greater than the friends you keep, the books you read, the heroes you admire, and the obstacles you overcome. Matshona Dhliwayo
I just wonder… Isn’t it better to start as a...
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I just wonder… Isn’t it better to start as a monster and become a hero? Isn’t that what creates belief? The idea that someone can change? F.D. Lee
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And where do I go? Where on Earth does a person go when she realizes there's no place for her? You can't possibly try to fit in, because if you do, if you manage to carve out some beautiful niche of happiness for yourself, then one day it will be taken from you as surely and truly as the sun rises each morning. Kelly Thompson
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A hero takes steps with the vision of bringing what is beyond the eyes of mere men into reality for them to come to a certain realization. A hero opens doors for the eyes of mere men to see things inside the closed doors and ponder, learn lessons and think of different actions! A hero faces challenges in an overcoming manner with a certain charisma that surpasses the understanding of mere men! To be a hero, one needs a certain gut! It is not as if heroes don’t hit the rock bottom, never! Heroes meet big problems, but big problems and challenges are what defines heroism, and even if heroes are unable to arrest and cripple all the challenges they meet, they must never be discredited for their awesome ingenuity that brought awe, became a yardstick, natured minds, provoked thoughts and caused the envy of mere men to shake, gave people reasons to reason, showed people the essence of life, cleared the path for people to take their journey, and epitomized true heroism! Heroes die after they have blazed the trail! Heroes retire after they have done something unique and unthinkable! Heroes are heroes, regardless of their slips or the big or small things they could never do as heroes, for most times heroes die as heroes whilst challenging the unthinkable challenges! Even if all people don’t see and acknowledge the heroism of a hero, heroes see, feel and understand what it really takes to be a hero! A hero is a hero! Don’t ever undermine heroism! . Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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A world without heroes is just an empty world! A world without heroes is just a world without great stories! There are heroes, and there are heroes! A hero takes steps with the vision of bringing what is beyond the eyes of mere men into reality for them to come to a certain realization. A hero opens doors for the eyes of mere men to see things inside the closed doors and ponder, learn lessons and think of different actions! A hero faces challenges in an overcoming manner with a certain charisma that surpasses the understanding of mere men! To be a hero, one needs a certain gut! It is not as if heroes don’t hit the rock bottom, never! Heroes meet big problems, but big problems and challenges are what define heroism, and even if heroes are unable to arrest and cripple all the challenges they meet, they must never be discredited for their awesome ingenuity that brought awe, became a yardstick, natured minds, provoked thoughts and caused the envy of mere men to shake, gave people reasons to reason, showed people the essence of life, cleared the path for people to take their journey, and epitomized true heroism! Heroes die after they have blazed the trail! Heroes retire after they have done something unique and unthinkable! Heroes are heroes, regardless of their slips or the big or small things they could never do as heroes, for most times heroes die as heroes whilst challenging the unthinkable challenges! Even if all people don’t see and acknowledge the heroism of a hero, heroes see, feel and understand what it really takes to be a hero! A hero is a hero! Don’t ever undermine heroism! . Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Stop grovelling and start working. Abhijit Naskar
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You are born to build the society, not to follow it. Abhijit Naskar
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The world needs heroes. Be a hero and build your part of the world. Abhijit Naskar
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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
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Throw away the newspapers. Discard all the useless debates and gossiping. Start working in silence. Start working on your passion. And make the news yourself. Abhijit Naskar
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Have patience and keep working. Everything will come alright in time. Abhijit Naskar
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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 of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman. Abigail Adams
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I think, honestly, the film industry is eating up comics characters at such a fast pace, and spewing them out as so much unspeakable, stench-y, crap. I mean, I think people are going to get pretty sick of the comics product of superhero, per se. Super-heroism seems to be so visceral for these times. Nobody needs a big clunky guy to throw cars about. You know, we’ve got drunks in town here that can do that. We don’t need that kind of superhero. What we need is a super-sage. We need a genuine group of wise people. We need to become wise. That’s the job of tomorrow; becoming wise, and integrated, and understanding. . Melinda Gebbie
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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
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You or I might think that at least one would show courage and put up a fight. But neither you nor I have suffered as they, and even we have born witness in silence to lesser ills under less dire threat. Yet, in the face of evil, to sit silent is an even greater evil. Complacency is ever the enabler of darkest deeds; Robert Fanney
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My left foot is the wisdom from yesterday, my right foot is the vision of tomorrow and my mind is focused on the work of today and this is how I stand a winner. Amit Kalantri
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It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world. We all save it every day, and we all destroy it -- in our own small ways -- by every choice we make and every tiniest action resulting from that c Vera Nazarian
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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
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Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe they will walk away with their lives. Such selfless courage is a victory in itself. N.D. Wilson
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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
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Launching a turnaround takes courage. I cannot measure that and so it is not going to be included in my analysis, but behind the moments of change there are always a few people within these societies who have decided to try to make a difference. Paul Collier
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The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security and stake their own lives in order to do what they themselves think worth doing. Walter Lippmann
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True heroism is not reserved solely for men and women in uniform. Heroes come in all genders, shapes, sizes and colors. We thank these world heroes for their sacrifices, courage and acts of valor that have made a difference in the world. James Morris Robinson
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If monkey became a man, then a man can become a hero. Amit Kalantri
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People become followers of the God because of his fear, but they become a fan of a hero because of his work. Amit Kalantri
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Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me. Fred Rogers
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First you be a hero and then raise your child to be a hero. Amit Kalantri
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I belong everywhere and nowhere, and I alone can save two worlds. Jonathan Friesen
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Hate did not give way to heroism. Evan Meekins
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Living your life on your own terms is utterly glorious. It makes perfect sense to you, but you have to be willing to let go of everything else. It has to be okay if nobody else likes that, but then when other people see that you are brave, you don’t mind. They’re fascinated by that because we all love brave people. We all love it when people are heroic. Melinda Gebbie
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Two ideas are opposed – not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated by the minds of men. The Resurgence of Authority stands opposed to the Rule of Money; Order to Social Chaos, Hierarchy to Equality, socio-economico-political Stability to constant Flux; glad assumption of Duties to whining for Rights; Socialism to Capitalism, ethically, economically, politically; the Rebirth of Religion to Materialism; Fertility to Sterility; the spirit of Heroism to the spirit of Trade; the principle of Responsibility to Parliamentarism; the idea of Polarity of Man and Woman to Feminism; the idea of the individual task to the ideal of ‘happiness’; Discipline to Propaganda-compulsion; the higher unities of family, society, State to social atomism; Marriage to the Communistic ideal of free love; economic self-sufficiency to senseless trade as an end in itself; the inner imperative to Rationalism. Francis Parker Yockey
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But one must remember that they were all men with systems. Freud, monumentally hipped on sex (for which he personally had little use) and almost ignorant of Nature: Adler, reducing almost everything to the will to power: and Jung, certainly the most humane and gentlest of them, and possibly the greatest, but nevertheless the descendant of parsons and professors, and himself a super-parson and a super-professor. all men of extraordinary character, and they devised systems that are forever stamped with that character.… Davey, did you ever think that these three men who were so splendid at understanding others had first to understand themselves? It was from their self-knowledge they spoke. They did not go trustingly to some doctor and follow his lead because they were too lazy or too scared to make the inward journey alone. They dared heroically. And it should never be forgotten that they made the inward journey while they were working like galley-slaves at their daily tasks, considering other people's troubles, raising families, living full lives. They were heroes, in a sense that no space-explorer can be a hero, because they went into the unknown absolutely alone. Was their heroism simply meant to raise a whole new crop of invalids? Why don't you go home and shoulder your yoke, and be a hero too? . Robertson Davies
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We are all heroes of our little worlds Bangambiki Habyarimana
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For a man who makes his salvation perfect through suffering, is more of a saint and a loving hero of nature. Auliq Ice
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If you honor the moments by not wasting them, the Time will honor you back by remembering you as the hero, for the rest of the time to come. Amit Kalantri
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Future will always remember the heroes, its because of them there exist a future. Amit Kalantri
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To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism. Dejan Stojanovic
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It was a tragic end to a heroic life. Chris Kyle
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Life is Not a perpetual climb towards Greatness.For our family, ourselves, and friends, It is but sad Decay, so, Let every girl die after her Hebé (Ἥβη).And every man after his Aristeia(ἀριστεία). Roman Payne
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Heroes don't have friends, they have fans. Amit Kalantri
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In the men I love heroes, in the work I love heroism Amit Kalantri
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By the way, don't 'weep inwardly' and get a sore throat. If you must weep, weep: a good honest howl! I suspect we - and especially, my sex - don't cry enough now-a-days. Aeneas and Hector and Beowulf, Roland and Lancelot blubbered like schoolgirls, so why shouldn't we? C.s. Lewis
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Remember, before they promoted to the chair of CEO, they were the best employees of their companies. Amit Kalantri
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Targets are achieved sooner out of need, than out of greed. Amit Kalantri
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Starting and profitably running a business is not just some achievement, it is heroism. Amit Kalantri
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Let's get one thing clear, there may be few or many successful people in your profession, but there is going to be only one hero in that profession. Amit Kalantri
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May the ears of Canada never grow deaf to the plea of widows and orphans and our crippled men for care and support. May the eyes of Canada never be blind to that glorious light which shines upon our young national life from the deeds of those "who counted not their lives dear unto themselves, " and may the lips of Canada never be dumb to tell to future generations the tales of heroism which will kindle the imagination and fire the patriotism of children that are yet unborn. Frederick George Scott
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Forgotten hero was never the real hero, real hero can not be forgotten. Amit Kalantri
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I was not always that way, but perhaps the shadow Earth, where I spent so many years, mellowed me a bit, and maybe my hitch in the dungeons of Amber reminded me somewhat of the quality of human suffering. I do not know. I only know that I could not pass by the hurt I saw on the form of someone much like someone who had once been a friend. Roger Zelazny
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In the world of so-called villains, what we need is not another hero. What we need is to stop the influx of people who dress themselves as menaces and proceed to harm others. Vironika Tugaleva
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Why had he committed this terrible sin? Everything in the world was insignificant compared to what he had lost. Everything in the world is insignificant compared to the truth and purity of one small man — even the empire stretching from the Black Sea to the Pacific Ocean, even science itself. Then he realized that it still wasn't too late. He still had the strength to lift up his head, to remain his mother's son. And he wasn't going to try to console himself or justify what he had done. He wanted this mean, cowardly act to stand all his life as a reproach; day and night it would be something to bring him back to himself. No, no, no! He didn't want to strive to be a hero — and then preen himself over his courage. Every hour, every day, year in, year out, he must struggle to be a man, struggle for his right to be pure and kind. He must do this with humility. And if it came to it, he mustn't be afraid even of death; even then he must remain a man.' Well then, we'll see, ' he said to himself. 'Maybe I do have enough strength. Your strength, Mother.. Vasily Grossman
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In the matter of spirit follow the Gods, in the matter of work follow the heroes. Amit Kalantri
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I come in a world of iron...to make a world of gold Dale Wasserman
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What is heroic is not making life any harder that it has to be. Marty Rubin
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Sometimes stories get on my nerves--especially the ones where unfair things keep happening to the hero over and over, for no reason at all, and he valiantly overcomes it all. Life isn't like that. Not every hero can stay valiant. Sometimes, they can't even stay a hero, so what does that make them? A failure? A pussy? A total failure jerkwad with no hope on the horizon save finding a cemetery and digging rectangles in the ground for the town drunk?. Susan Vaught
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Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them. Nancy Farmer
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I used to read in books how our fathers persecuted mankind. But I never appreciated it. I did not really appreciate the infamies that have been committed in the name of religion, until I saw the iron arguments that Christians used. I saw the Thumbscrew–two little pieces of iron, armed on the inner surfaces with protuberances, to prevent their slipping; through each end a screw uniting the two pieces. And when some man denied the efficacy of baptism, or may be said, 'I do not believe that a fish ever swallowed a man to keep him from drowning, ' then they put his thumb between these pieces of iron and in the name of love and universal forgiveness, began to screw these pieces together. When this was done most men said, 'I will recant.' Probably I should have done the same. Probably I would have said: 'Stop; I will admit anything that you wish; I will admit that there is one god or a million, one hell or a billion; suit yourselves; but stop.' But there was now and then a man who would not swerve the breadth of a hair. There was now and then some sublime heart, willing to die for an intellectual conviction. Had it not been for such men, we would be savages to-night. Had it not been for a few brave, heroic souls in every age, we would have been cannibals, with pictures of wild beasts tattooed upon our flesh, dancing around some dried snake f. Robert G. Ingersoll
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Wilbur looked at the list glumly. "Are you sure you need all this stuff?"" Yep."" The ax?"" The ax is critical."" The c Ursula Vernon
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Words of the hero: "I am my fate. Marty Rubin
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It's hard to know what happy is if you're not sure if you've felt it before. Kelly Thompson
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Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die. Wayne Gerard Trotman
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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