#heroism

Words of the hero: "I am my fate. ↗

— Marty Rubin

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He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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I am not a hero. Life has not required it of me. ↗

— Geraldine Brooks

#life

Heroism is endurance for one moment more. ↗

— George F. Kennan

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Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward. ↗

— Piers Anthony

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War is hell, but sometimes in the midst of that hell men do things that heaven itself must be proud of. A hand grenade is hurled into a group of men. One of the men throws himself on top of it, making his body a living shield. In the burst of wild fire he dies, and the others live. Heroism is only a word, often a phony one. This is an action for which there is no good word because we can hardly even imagine it, let alone give it its proper name. Very literally, one man takes death into his bowels, takes fire into his own sweet flesh, so that the other men can take life, some of them men he hardly knows. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

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Each one of us has the power — and must develop the will — to be the hero of his own life. We believe in goals, in purposes, in achievement and in the joy of living. ↗

— Andrew Bernstein

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1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

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The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong. ↗

— Susan Faludi

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Heroism in a bad cause. ↗

— Karel Reisz

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