#heroes

Tim and Raine are coming in." "Are they insane?" "Apparently. ↗

— Susan Bischoff

#chronicles #curfew #funny #heroes #susan

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little. ↗

— Criss Jami

#courage #courageous #crazy #death #definition

As long as I live, I will always remember those wee children standing at the railing on that ship." - John Hanlon, the sailor ↗

— Deana J. Driver

#children-s-books #heroes #inspirational #non-fiction #non-fiction-books-inspirational

Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you. ↗

— Gale Harold

#heroes #inspirational #inspirational

Let's Not Just Be Heroes! Let's Be Heroes Who Lead! ↗

— Daniel Wetta

#inspiration #leadership #inspirational

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us. ↗

— Bobby Seale

#like #move #observe #police #scared

Do not be so ridiculous, I can more easily find you someone else.” Gripping the bars of his prison so strongly that the bones of his knuckles showed prominently through his pale skin, the monster growled again, “I will have no other.” Nearing the end of his patience, Klaus demanded, “Why? Why are you being so impossible?” Turning to the diminutive creature beneath the blanket, he smiled nastily, his light red eyes gleaming, “Because he wants her. ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#horror #love #monsters #romance #suspense

It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#marriage

Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes. ↗

— Mark Twain

#men

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#behave #demean #easily #heroes #motives