#roe

Stand your ground!" Stheno yelled. "I've got free samples! ↗

— Rick Riordan

#euryale #gorgon #heroes-of-olympus #humor #medusa

Little girls grow up thinking that knights in shining armor actually exist.  But they don't.  And if those valiant heroes ever did bless this world with their chivalrous deeds, I imagine, just like Christ's apostles, they were destroyed by envy on the battlefront. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#heroes #knights #love #richelle #richelle-goodrich

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

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have decided that high achievers, who are called overachievers, owe their surplus ambition to a defect in mothering (either too little or too much). We want to admire but think we have a right not to be intimidated. We dislike feeling inferior to an ideal. So away with ideals, with essences. The only ideals allowed are healthy ones -- those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#ambition #democracy #egalitarianism #equality #essence

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

— Daniel Wetta

#inspiration #leadership #inspirational

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me. ↗

— Fred Rogers

#heroes #heroism #life

We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day. ↗

— Brad Meltzer

#humanity #life #life

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