402 Quotes About Heroism

He had acquired a reputation for possessing a noble character, and even for being something of a hero - or, at least, in the assessment of one contemporary commentator, one of those parties who are able to fulfil the public need in the event of genuine heroes being absent or, for any reason, unpalatable.

Heroes are more than just stories, they’re people. And people are complicated; people are strange. Nobody is a hero through and through, there’s always something in them that’ll turn sour... you’ll learn it one day. There are no heroes, only villains who win.

You will never be a hero. You were never meant to be a hero." Hero. that one word made Aru lift her chin. It made her think of Mini and Boo, her mom, and all the incredible things she herself had done in just nine days. Breaking the lamp hadn't been heroic... but everything else? Fighting for people she cared about and doing everything it took to fix her mistake? That was heroism.Vajra became a spear in her hand. "I already am. And it's heroine.

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

Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!

If, as has been postulated before, heroism happens when courage meets circumstance, what if the circumstances are mundane?

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

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

vie est un combat.Pourquoi aimons-nous les héros? Parce que la vie est un combat.