Henry David Thoreau Quotes

In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.

One man with courage is a majority.

Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness, and France is saved.

The human race is a race of cowards. I am not only marching with them but am carrying the banner.

No doubt Jean Bart does not talk like you, but who of you could act like Jean Bart?

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

For indeed you have a choice. You can flee and hide, and wait to be found. You can live out your days in terror, without meaning. Or you can take the harder choice, and you can save them.

Let every lion do his duty.

Brave, bold people, these are what we want.

No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.

Holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night!

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields.

It was at this point that Bilbo stopped. Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The tremendous things that happened afterward were as nothing compared to it. He fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.

My values are not based on violence. My values are based on courage, which you see time and time again in my books. A warrior isn't somebody like Bruce Willis or Arnold Schwarzenegger. A warrior can be any age. A warrior is a person people look up to.

Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero.

Be heroes in an army of construction.

To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.

Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy mountain cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson protecting them from the manticore. Percy's sword gleamed in the dark. He'd been the first demigod Nico had ever seen in action. Later at Camp Half-Blood, Percy took Nico by the arm, promising to keep his sister Bianca safe. Nico believed him. Nico looked into his sea-green eyes and though, How can he possibly fail? This is a real hero.

To the valiant actions speak alone.

Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.

Do one heroic thing today; big or small doesn't matter because it defines who you are and what you really believe

But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him we owe the Brasidas, the Dion, the Epaminodas, the Scipio of old, and I must think we are more deeply indebted to him than to all the ancient writers. Each of his "Lives" is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists. A wild courage, a Stoicism not of the schools, but of the blood, shines in every anecdote, and had given that book immense fame.

Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.