#hero

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#balance #bottom #civilized #else #founded

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. ↗

— John Adams

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Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day. ↗

— Edward Albert

#another #another day #day #days #fear

I am the hero of Africa. ↗

— Idi Amin

#am #hero #i #i am

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

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I don't really think of Odo as a heroic lead, but that's nice if you do. ↗

— Rene Auberjonois

#i #lead #nice #really #think

I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children's hero for so long. ↗

— Tom Baker

#being #children #classical #excitement #glamour

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous. ↗

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

#about #became #charlie #famous #feeling

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#also #children #efforts #especially #families

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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