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

  • I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust. It is one of the effects, perhaps one of the functions of literature to arouse desire, and I can discover no grounds for saying that sexual pleasure should not be among the objects of desire which literature presents to us, along with heroism, virtue, peace, death, food, wisdom, God, etc.

  • There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.

    Waiting   Heroism   Done  
    Arthur Conan Doyle “Lost World”, Courier Dover Publications
  • 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.

    Courage   Believe   Hero  
    N. D. Wilson (2009). “Dandelion Fire: Book 2 of the 100 Cupboards”, p.173, Random House Books for Young Readers
  • September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

  • Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

  • I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

    Courage   Freedom   Hero  
    Interview published with the "Biograph" album set, 1985.
  • To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man -- these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity. History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own.

    Hero   Men   Average  
  • The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.

    Hero   Society   Ancestor  
  • Adversity is an opportunity for heroism.

  • Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful to labor, or aristocratic not to labor, the world will be filled with idleness and crime, and with every possible moral deformity.

    Work   Long   Effort  
    Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2807, Library of Alexandria
  • Heroism, or military glory, is much admired by the generality of mankind. They consider it as the most sublime kind of merit. Menof cool reflection are not so sanguine in their praises of it.

    David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.521, Delphi Classics
  • Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

  • I think we must cling to the hope that we can see in the great heroism, the bravery of the firemen and policemen, and the outpouring of caring and concern that has come pouring in from around the world.

    "Dr. Jane Goodall: Healing and possibility of peace". Live chat, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2001.
  • Isn't every hero aware of all the terrible reason they did those good deeds?" Aware of every mistake they ever made and how good people got hurt because of their decisions? Don't they recall the moments they weren't heroic at all? The moments where their heroism led to more deaths than deliberate villainy ever could?

    Hurt   Mistake   Hero  
  • Heroism isn't a one time thing: Live Heroically.

  • No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.

    Hero   Winning   Men  
    Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, p.8, Delphi Classics
  • This may not be the path for everyone. But the trust of which we speak is not an act of heroism. it is an act of surrender that makes the decision easier. It sounds unbelieveable, but I know it to be true. Leave the decision to God and you relieve yourself of the anxiety that comes from thinking that the choice is yours - the sneaking suspicion that you might have done better had you been a little more careful, a little luckier.

  • History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?

  • We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That is our tragedy. Once I wanted to be a saint. It seemed the only absolute act left to do, for what is most powerful in me is the craving for purity, greatness.

  • Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death.

  • 'Heroism' is not the same as coping. A man who does his job properly and succeeds through his own efforts is definitely to be commended, but he is not a hero in the classic sense until he deliberately lays his life on the line for a cause he deems to be greater than himself.

    Jobs   Hero   Men  
  • 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.

    Book   Men   Justice  
  • Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.

    War   Women   History  
  • A hero is someone who stands in the community and speaks their hopes and speaks their passion. That's almost an act of heroism nowadays because higher consciousness is so trivialized.

    Source: www.douglasgillies.com
  • No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.

    Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.656, Modern Library
  • 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.

  • Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

    Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.111, London : H. Colburn
  • How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

    "Celebrating Our She-roes" by Jill S. Tietjen, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2014.
  • PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they can and will make the world a better place.

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