"A hero must hero."

Heroism, Identity, Strength, Responsibility

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"I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives."

Boris Becker, German Athlete

Heroism, Heroes, Want

"I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of the sun... let each of us be an Artemis, Odysseus, or Zeus... Aphrodite to the extent of the will of each one."

Roman Payne, American Novelist

Heroism, Ambition, Life, Myth

"Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up."

Jim Butcher, American Author

Heroism, Money, Sacrifice, Reality

"Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed."

Bob Riley, American Politician

Heroism, Heroes

"Let your heroes be known. Give praise and honor to those to whom it is rightly due. Spend more time posting stories about heroes than you do about the wrongs in the world. When we know about heroes and we see those who perform heroic acts, we too want to be heroes. There is a hero in all of us. Heroes are important."

John Patrick Hickey, American Author

Heroism, Heroes, Praise, Inspirational, Action

"Why?" I asked. He knew what I meant, and shrugged. "Because when the legends get written, I didn't want to be remembered for standing on the sidelines. I want my future offspring to know that I was there, and that I fought against her at the end, even if I couldn't do anything useful." I blinked, this time not at the brightness of the sun. "Because," he went on, his eyes locked with mine, "I didn't want you to fight alone. Or die alone."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

Heroism, Legacy, Support, Battle, Memory

"The true hero trains himself in silence."

Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann, British Musician

Heroism, Silence, Discipline, Training

"Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Heroism, Denial, Truth, Health

"Heroism is endurance for one moment more."

George F. Kennan, American Historian

Heroism, Endurance

"Where there is a brave man in the thickest of the fight there is the post of honor."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Heroism, Bravery, Honor, War, Courage

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"Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution."

Religion

"There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?"

Mortality

"The best things in life are beyond money, their price is agony and sweat and devotion ... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value."

Values

"No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority."

Authority

"Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. All the wealthy, unhappy people you're ever met take sleeping pills; Mobile Infantrymen don't need them. Give a cap trooper a bunk and time to sack out in it and he's as happy as a worm in an apple - asleep."

Happiness

"Majority rule gives the ruthless strong man plenty of elbow room to oppress his fellows."

Authority

"Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong."

Morality

"I had never been much interested in Pluto, too many facts and too much isolation."

Science

"He became convinced that ordinary commercial financing could be done for a service charge plus an insurance fee amounting to much less that the current rates of interest charged by banks, whose rates were based on supply and demand, treating money as a commodity rather than as a sovereign state's means of exchange."

Finance

"I know where I came from-but where did all you zombies come from?I felt a headache coming on, but a headache powder is one thing I do not take. I did once-and you all went away.So I crawled into bed and whistled out the light.You aren't really there at all. There isn't anybody but me-Jane-here alone in the dark.I miss you dreadfully!"

Emotion