#hero

But everything had changed, and I was becoming more and more of who I really was, and less of this person I had thought I wanted to be. ↗

— Perry Moore

#inspirational #change

History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#hero #heroes #history #uncertainty #villain

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward. ↗

— Wilma Mankiller

#adversity #cherokee #collectively #continue #down

Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief. ↗

— Wilma Mankiller

#cherokee #chief #election #grow #grow up

The Howeitat spread out along the cliffs to return the peasants' fire. This manner of going displeased Auda, the old lion, who raged that a mercenary village folk should dare to resist their secular masters, the Abu Tayi. So he jerked his halter, cantered his mare down the path, and rode out plain to view beneath the easternmost houses of the village. There he reined in, and shook a hand at them, booming in his wonderful voice: 'Dogs, do you not know Auda?' When they realized it was that implacable son of war their hearts failed them, and an hour later Sherif Nasir in the town-house was sipping tea with his guest the Turkish Governor, trying to console him for the sudden change of fortune. ↗

— T.E. Lawrence

#humourosly-inspirational #military-leaders #tribal #change

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker. ↗

— Helen Keller

#along #also #each #heroes #honest

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

#heroism #live-life #courage

You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do. ↗

— Lev Grossman

#hero #quest #courage

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting. ↗

— Ptahhotep

#courageous #crafty #diplomacy #fighthing #heroic

Fighting can be like champagne. It can go to the head of a coward as quickly as of a hero. Anyone has the ability to be brave on a battlefield; when you are forced with the choice of: Be brave or... be killed. You may not realize it, but most of us have the chance to be heroes off the battlefield. When we take a stance and find our inner courage, instead of looking the other direction when we encounter evilness or oppression. ↗

— José N. Harris

#courageous #hero #courage