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• To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Military, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.80, Graphic Arts Books

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• There were others, women with stories that were told in a quieter voice: women who hid Jewish children in their homes, putting themselves directly in harm's way to save others. Too many of them paid a terrible, unimaginable price for their heroism. And like so many women in wartime, they were largely forgotten after the war's end.There were no parades for them, very few medals, and almost no mention in the history books.

  Megan Chance

  Children, War, Book

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Submarines, Way, Film

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• Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Voice, Secret, Individual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1362, Delphi Classics

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• A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Hero, Men

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• There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

  William Hazlitt

  Vices, Virtue, Crime

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.39

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• 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

  Memorable, Heart, History

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• To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

  Theodore White

  Friendship, Courage, Bullying

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• The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  War, Appeals, Wealthy

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• The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.

  Angus Wilson

  Hero, Opportunity, People

  "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews". Book edited by Malcolm Cowley, First Series, New York: Viking Press, p. 261, 1959.

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• A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.

  Aristide Briand

  Country, Justice, Battle

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• Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, War, Guitar

  "The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics" by The Beatles, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1969.

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• To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Hero, Odds, Minions

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• In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Hero, Fighting, Thinking

  "Adventurer sets sights on the sun for an 'impossible' dream". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. January 19, 2010.

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• It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hero, Men, Said

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• Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Squares, Air, Pillars

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “Collected Poems 1931-74”, p.48, Faber & Faber

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• Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

  George Eliot

  Winning, Victory, Looks

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1113, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hero, Reason, Butlers

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• Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Hero, Scene, States

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”

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• The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspiration, Hero, Virtue

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• We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as he is to the infirmities of a man, yet suffering the tortures of a demon, and bearing them with the magnanimity of a God, do we not behold a heroism that angels may indeed surpass, but which they cannot imitate, and must admire.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Humility, Angel, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.212

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• Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.

  Nnamdi Azikiwe

  Fighting, Israel, People

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• The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

  Washington Irving

  Sports, Hero, Idols

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.144, Penguin

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• It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Sacrifice, Humanity, Ruins

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