#hero

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward. ↗

— Dolores Ibarruri

#coward #hero #than #widow #wife

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#finance #follow #heroes #like #off

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#death #defies #down #duty #fate

Full circle from the tomb of the womb to the womb of the tomb we come, an ambiguous, enigmatical incursion into a world of solid matter that is soon to melt from us like the substance of a dream. ↗

— Joseph Campbell Hero with a

#dreams

Trains are great dirty smoky things," said Will. "You won't like it." Tessa was unmoved. "I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?" "I've never swum naked in the Thames before, but I know I wouldn't like it." "But think how entertaining for sightseers," said Tessa, and she saw Jem duck his head to hide the quick flash of his grin. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#humor #jem-carstairs #teasing #tessa-gray #will-herondale

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#inspirational #inspirational

Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of nanosecond. Or the knock on a door. Kind of made a male believe in the divine. It really did. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#heroin #inspirational #john #page- #inspirational

Great men have great discipline.” ― Habeeb Akande ↗

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#great #greatness #hero #leaders #leadership

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

#hero #heroism #individualism #individuality #nature

Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?" "They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#will-herondale #trust