{"quotes":[{"text":"I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.","author":"Lance Conrad","tags":["heroism","motherhood","mothers"],"id":1688,"author_id":"Lance+Conrad"},{"text":"Words of the hero: 'I am my fate.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["fate","heroism","self-sufficiency"],"id":4974,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"Future will always remember the heroes, its because of them there exist a future.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["future","hero","heroes","heroism","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","motivation","motivational","motivational","work"],"id":8280,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism.","author":"Dejan Stojanovic","tags":["dejan-stojanovic","heroism","literature","literature","poetry","poetry","quotes","to-live-by","secret","thoughts","wisdom"],"id":8452,"author_id":"Dejan+Stojanovic"},{"text":"Heroes are more than just stories, they’re people. And people are complicated; people are strange. Nobody is a hero through and through, there’s always something in them that’ll turn sour... You’ll learn it one day. There are no heroes, only villains who win.","author":"Joel Cornah","tags":["hero","heroes","heroism","villains"],"id":13043,"author_id":"Joel+Cornah"},{"text":"I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat Tillman… did not have that opportunity. The truth of war is not always easy. The truth is always more heroic than the hype.","author":"Jessica Lynch","tags":["heroes","heroism","honesty","hype","military","pat-tillmanillman","truth","war"],"id":14012,"author_id":"Jessica+Lynch"},{"text":"Where were all heroical parts but in Helteranius? And a man might make a garment for the moon sooner than fit the o'erleaping actions of great Jalcanaius, who now leaveth but his body to bedung that earth that was lately shaken at his terror. I have waded in red blood to the knee; and in this hour, in my old years, the world is become for me a vision only and a mock-show.","author":"E.R. Eddison","tags":["heroism","trauma","war"],"id":18186,"author_id":"E.R.+Eddison"},{"text":"Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?","author":"J.M. Coetzee","tags":["courage","heroism","live-life"],"id":18209,"author_id":"J.M.+Coetzee"},{"text":"I never encountered any crisis in life, because I solved my problems before they turned into crisis.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["ability","crisis","hero","heroes","heroism","human","humans","inconvenience","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","motivation","motivational","motivational","out-of-the-box","philosophy","problems","solution","solutions","solve","talent","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":18535,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"The story of John Ritter illustrates what it means to be a hero and how we treat our heroes. When we idealize real people they lose their humanity. They are turned into idols that we worship and may later want to destroy. Heroes are transformed from conscious-feeling fellow homo sapiens into characters in our stories. The greatest hero-characters will become legends or even mythic characters. We might think we know them, but when they are idolized they become more like treasured memories, existing in our minds as archetypal characters, rather than living-breathing human beings with thoughts and feelings of their own.","author":"Jeff Rasley","tags":["heroes","heroism","inspirational","sports-biography","sports-inspirational"],"id":20134,"author_id":"Jeff+Rasley"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":270,"pages":27,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}