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• This may not be the path for everyone. But the trust of which we speak is not an act of heroism. it is an act of surrender that makes the decision easier. It sounds unbelieveable, but I know it to be true. Leave the decision to God and you relieve yourself of the anxiety that comes from thinking that the choice is yours - the sneaking suspicion that you might have done better had you been a little more careful, a little luckier.

  William McGurn

  Thinking, Choices, Decision

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  Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

  Gerard Way

  Hero, Extraordinary Person, Ordinary Extraordinary

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• You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Hero, Coward, Being A Hero

  "John Bull's Other Island". Book by George Bernard Shaw (Preface), November 1, 1904.

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• We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hero

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• I feel uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. Um, and, I don't want to obviously desecrate or disrespect memory of anyone that's fallen, and obviously there are individual circumstances in which there is genuine, tremendous heroism, you know, hail of gunfire, rescuing fellow soldiers and things like that. But it seems to me that we marshal this word in a way that is problematic. But maybe I'm wrong about that.

  Chris Hayes

  Memories, War, Hero

  "MSNBC host apologizes after saying he's 'uncomfortable' calling fallen soldiers heroes", www.foxnews.com. May 28, 2012.

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• Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all around us.

  Frank Warren

  Motivation, Drama, Inspiration

  "Half a million secrets". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2012.

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• The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Literature, Hunger, Conscious

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• Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?

  Erich Segal

  Quiet, Idealism, Knows

  Erich Segal (2014). “The Class”, p.517, Bantam

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• The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama, competition, camaraderie & heroism

  Fred Lebow

  Drama, Inspirational Running, Competition

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• Heroism is not blind courage: it is selfless action. it is knowing the odds are stacked against you, but feeling that you must do what you do for the good of others.

  John Baldoni

  Knowing, Odds, Feelings

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• We are moving away from the old idea of leadership - leadership has less to do (now) with heroism. We don't look for... unblemished omnipotent heroes, but leaders who are complex, dependent, changeable... We do not need one dominant authority structure telling all our inner voices to shut up.

  Walter Truett Anderson

  Moving, Hero, Ideas

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• The less you demand total fulfillment from relationships, the more you can appreciate them for the beautiful tapestries they are, in which absolute and relative, perfect and imperfect, infinite and finite are marvelously interwoven. You can stop fighting the shifting tides of relative love and learn to ride them instead. And you come to appreciate more fully the simple, ordinary heroism involved in opening to another person and forging real intimacy.

  John Welwood

  Beautiful, Real, Fighting

  John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

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• What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.

  John Podhoretz

  Hero, People, Evil

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• Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Freedom, Hero, Adventure

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.87, Ultramarine Publishing

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• Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Kings, Hero, Men

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.160, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold, a nimble, a restless mind: a thousand difficulties must be contemn'd with which a mean heart would be broken: many attempts must be made to no purpose: much Treasure must sometimes be scatter'd without any return: much violence, and vigour of thoughts must attend it: some irregularities, and excesses must be granted it, that would hardly be pardon'd by the severe Rules of Prudence.

  Thomas Sprat

  Mean, Heart, Science

  Thomas Sprat (1722). “The History of the Royal Society of London: For the Improving of Natural Knowledge”, p.392

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• PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they can and will make the world a better place.

  Michael Arad

  Determination, People, Hatred

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• We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Believe, Hero, Demigods

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1961). “Laocoön: Nathan the Wise ; Minna von Barnhelm”

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• Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, Years

  Speech in House of Commons, 18 June 1940

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• Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the field of battle.

  James A. Baldwin

  America, Society, Battle

  "Notes of a Native Son". Book by James Baldwin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 1955.

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• Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.

  Lillian Wald

  War, Women, History

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• What is the commonest, and yet the least remembered form of heroism? The heroism of an average mother. Ah! when I think of that broad fact I gather hope again for poor humanity, and this dark world looks bright, this diseased world looks wholesome to me once more, because, whatever else it is or is not full of, it is at least full of mothers.

  Charles Kingsley

  Mother, Dark, Thinking

  "Daily Thoughts".

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• Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strength, Being Strong, Running

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.41, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Courage, Yoga

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

  A. E. Hotchner

  School, Firsts, Sun

  A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.3, Da Capo Press

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