If, as has been postulated before, heroism happens when courage meets circumstance, what if the circumstances are mundane?

when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.

Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

Sometimes, before you make any plans or resolutions, before you declare your heroic intent to persevere, you just have to cry.

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.

Everyday heroism is all about doing what we ought to on a daily basis and regardless of the tons of pressures that come on our way.

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.

In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that.

My friends wanted their names in the list of employees of some company, well I wanted my name in the list of the heroes of the world.

Schizofrenia pana la ultima ei limita, refuzul total al oricarei realitati decat cea a visului, al oricarui adevar decat al viziunii.

In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.

It is not triumph which defines a man, but tragedy. Triumph always brings out the best in men, but tragedy shows us what we are made of.

If you achieve a success not achieved by anyone else and not possible to achieve by anyone else then you are the hero of your generation.