The key to heroism is two things.

This rhetorical heroism is enough to leave the world speechless.

You know, a lot of people risk their lives in a brief act of heroism, which is kind of cool, but Jill has what I call slow heroism.

Banality of heroism is, it's ordinary people who do heroic deeds.

(Heroism survives, in part, in the romanticized idea of the heroic entrepreneur. )

But to be effective in the cause of heroism, the hero must die promptly.

Would not monuments to shame be as instructive, if not more so, than monuments to heroism?

I am surrounded by stories of heroes whose heroism might inspire others to effect change themselves.

Myths about his wartime heroism and divine status soon followed, and a cult of personality was established.

Today, 60 years later, we remember loved ones lost and recount stories of their great heroism and valour.

On the other hand, it crowds out virtues that have no economic utility, like heroism, honor, generosity, and pity.

She then quickly proceeded to give a long celebratory speech about the heroism of US soldiers fighting for freedom abroad.

This will not be easy to achieve in a country where many people consider breaking the law an act of heroism.

Some years ago, I proposed that every country should add to its monuments to heroism some monuments to its national shame.

So, after a week of heroism he and a few thousand of his men crossed the border into Austria and exile.

More vivid in people s minds are the stories they will one day tell their grandchildren about their travails and their economic heroism.

On 9 November 1940 the city was awarded Poland's highest military decoration for heroism, the Virtuti Militari, during the Siege of Warsaw (1939).

Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism, playing out silently in the lives of people all around us even now.

This is a real cinema of humility the directors again and again have chosen to take seriously the dramas and struggles of ordinary people and find the heroism or tragedy therein.

Poverty drives some to take money in exchange for acts of violence, abetted by the lure of a false heroism that they were not able to act upon during Saddam s long reign.

On the contrary, I wish to pay tribute to all the soldiers from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other nations who fought in the ranks of the Red Army, for their heroism, dedication and sacrifice.

That moment marked the end of years of war and terrible hardship the revolution had been won through blood, sacrifice, heroism, the mistakes of enemies, and the manipulative assistance of Stalin, who purported to be a friend.

As long as we're teaching our kids that heroism starts when someone scratches a mark on your forehead, or someone tells you that you're part of a prophecy, they're missing the most important characteristic of leadership, which is that it comes from within.

Once an icon of heroism, personal charm, and the quest to overcome longstanding injustices, Kennedy s reputation has been badly damaged by tales and testimonials about the scores of women who cycled through White House bedrooms (or hotel rooms when the president traveled).

Damascus Remains, Throbbing Wounds, Insanity of Poetry, Tears in her Hands, Sword's Caravan and many other poems and reflections on women, human beings, war, heroism and the world by Ibrahim Shakarneh from Nahalin village, in Palestine, can be found on his blog.

The shoot out s individual competition for heroism or misery is really alien to such a team game as football, but it is accepted as a necessary way to resolve the stalemate. But when it comes to elections which ideally should always produce a winner there is no such device.

So the psychology of heroism is we're going to end in a moment how do we encourage children in new hero courses, that I'm working with Matt Langdon he has a hero workshop to develop this heroic imagination, this self labeling, I am a hero in waiting, and teach them skills.

The greatest sacrifices in the history of humankind for the sake of freedom, untold deprivations and sufferings, mass heroism and the valour of our fighters liberators the hard work done in the rear and the unity and persistence of peoples were guarantees for complete victory over the forces of evil.

This is a little vault you have to put your product in there, it goes up an electric lift and then the guy behind the counter tells you that you have to recite the vow of heroism, which you do, if you want to buy anything. And it limits, really, their sales.

Above all, the government must spare no effort in convincing poor Iraqis of the value of democracy and freedom, and how important the constitution is in realizing their aspirations for a better life. This will not be easy to achieve in a country where many people consider breaking the law an act of heroism.

Joy was an act of heroism, a blunt challenge in the face of death, while here joy turns into loads of guilt and the unreal rumination of stories that used to matter with the same friends with whom we shared life on the edge of death. Today we moved into living denial on the edge of our homeland, the denial that we are actually out.