1. he showed great heroism in battle
2. he received a medal for valor
2. "Self trust is the essence of heroism."
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Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. "One of the most important forms of heroism is the heroism of conciousness, the heroism of thought: the willingness to tolerate aloneness."
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Quote by Nathaniel Branden
4. "That's the beginning of heroism, the decision to try."
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Quote by Gregory Maguire
5. "In the context of today, this WAS heroism."
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John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me
6. "This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero."
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Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
7. "Cowardice can imitate heroism if given no where to flee"
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Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
8. "In the course of its development, civilization eliminates heroism."
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Quote by Jean Lartéguy
9. "We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle."
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Russell Banks, Continental Drift
10. "Heroism, generally, is totally out of place in the spiritual life, until we grow to the point at which it would never be thought of as heroism anyway."
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Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God