#heroism

Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#chi-ro-jin #fear #fear-of-death #fear-of-dying #fearlessness

Duty comes in many forms; at times duty to country may conflict with duty to family. Yet, with a lucid mind the guises can be torn away and in the end, duty becomes but one, and that duty is to value justice above everything--to do what is right not because someone ordains it, but because the heart which is the seat of truth decrees it so. ↗

— F. Sionil José

#filipiniana #heroism #justice #philippines #family

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

I am not a hero. Life has not required it of me. ↗

— Geraldine Brooks

#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 Allende

#death

It's not just children who need heroes. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#heroism

I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#liberty #heroism

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#face #greatest #height #heroism #how

Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

#also #cost #duty #fearful #german

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#appeals #enormously #even #go #heroism