Veronica Roth Quotes

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.

Being selfless is not that different from being brave. It is when you are selfless that you are the bravest.

There is nothing more noble than putting yourself in the line of fire to save a life.

Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind.

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.

It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at your bravest." --Four in Divergent

'Heroism' is not the same as coping. A man who does his job properly and succeeds through his own efforts is definitely to be commended, but he is not a hero in the classic sense until he deliberately lays his life on the line for a cause he deems to be greater than himself.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

I don't feel opportunistic ever, in anything.

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

I always put myself second - I like to make others happy.

To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.

If I make a new bag I love, I don't keep it.

There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.

To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.

I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

I'd take a bullet for just about anyone! If someone pulled out a gun, I'd step in front of you even though I've never met you.

Not what they want but what is good for them.

Heroes are people who think more of others than themselves. This is not to say that they don't think of themselves. They do. They certainly do. But they think of others more.

Putting the need of your team above personal self-interest is a difficult thing to do.