Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
quote by Calvin Coolidge
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Whenever the occasion arose, he rose to the occasion.
quote by Jonathan Brown
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I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
quote by Miguel de Cervantes
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
quote by Abraham Lincoln
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Heroism in a bad cause.
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On Playing With Sand
Yesterday,
An amendment was made,
Men and women danced,
Goblets stroke in the hall,
To celebrate
An occasion of success.
Today,
The same amendment
Has been undone,
Men and women have danced,
Goblets have stroke in the hall,
To celebrate
An occasion of success.
Tomorrow,
Again the amendment will be made,
Men and women will dance,
Goblets will strike in the hall,
To celebrate
An occasion of success.
This is how our government goes on,
By doing and undoing amendments,
Like children who play on sand,
Make houses, stupas, towers and tombs,
And smash them with kicks,
To make them afresh,
But the difference is they do not celebrate,
An occasion of success.
poem by Muhammad Shanazar
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Heroism is endurance for one moment more.
quote by George F. Kennan
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
quote by Natalie Clifford Barney
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Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.
quote by Charles Henry Parkhurst
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There is a need for heroism in American life today.
quote by Vicki Baum
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Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer.
I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.
quote by Thor Heyerdahl
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I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.
quote by Abebe Bikila
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Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
quote by Mary Manin Morrissey
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Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.
quote by Michael Bay
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
quote by William Hazlitt
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To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
quote by Theodore H. White
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The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.
quote by Angus Wilson
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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
quote by Charles de Gaulle
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