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Heroism

«One brave deed makes no hero.»
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier (Writer) | About: Heroism | Keywords: No Hero
«That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end»
«Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald (Writer) | About: Heroism, Tragedy | Keywords: Show Me
«Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes»
«The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper»
«Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard | About: Heroism | Keywords: admiration, heroes, martyrs
«People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall»
Author: Leonardo DiCaprio (Actor) | About: Heroism, Teenage | Keywords: brat, Out of Control, teen, teens
«Self-trust is the essence of heroism»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Heroism, Trust | Keywords: heroism
«Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.»
«There comes Coolidge and does nothing and retires a hero, not only because he hadn't done anything, but because he had done it better than anyone»
Author: Will Rogers | About: Action, Heroism | Keywords: Coolidge, retires

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