The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.
Joss WhedonStichwörter: determination heroism right hero making-amends persistance
Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.
Jodi PicoultStichwörter: heroism community
I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.
George CarlinStichwörter: individuality nature individualism heroism hero grass
Diese Haltung zur Opferung von Menschenleben ist seltsam. Militärbefehlshaber überlegen nicht zweimal, wenn sie Soldaten in die Schlacht schicken und dabei genau wissen, dass viele von ihnen sterben werden. [...] Andererseits verbietet es der Offiziersethos, einzelne Soldaten auszuwählen und ihnen zu befehlen, ihr Leben zu opfern [...]. Und doch - und das ist noch paradoxer - werden Soldaten, die eine solche Tat aus eigener Initiative vollbringen, als Helden betrachtet.
J.M. CoetzeeStichwörter: ethics war heroism military
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
J.R.R. TolkienVanye: You're asking me to kill you.
Luthiel: I'm asking you to save her.
Stichwörter: death heroism luthiel vanye
Luthiel: I cannot change what will happen. I can only change how I act in the face of it.
Robert FanneyStichwörter: heroism resolve willpower luthiel
Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?
J.M. CoetzeeStichwörter: courage heroism live-life
Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death.
Isabel AllendeStichwörter: heroism
You or I might think that at least one would show courage and put up a fight. But neither you nor I have suffered as they, and even we have born witness in silence to lesser ills under less dire threat. Yet, in the face of evil, to sit silent is an even greater evil. Complacency is ever the enabler of darkest deeds;
Robert FanneyStichwörter: evil courage fight fantasy suffering heroism threat complacency enablement
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