Courage is found in unlikely places.
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.
Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
The absurd hero’s refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.
The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action.
One person can and does make a difference.