Henry James Quotes

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

I'm facing Niagara Falls - the wind and the mist and the dark and the peregrine falcons - and I'm going to stay focused on the other side.

There is no better test of character than when you're tossed into crisis. That's when we see one's true colors shine through. So I try my best to make my characters personally involved in the plot, in a way that stresses them and tests them.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

I mean, I always think when you're an actor you have to be the guy running into the burning building rather than running out of it, if you want to make some noise as an actor.

A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life.

I was a daredevil before, and after I lost my sight I was the same. I loved riding bikes, scooters and horses. I even learned to box. Muhammad Ali is my hero.

After a sheltered life, I went the other way. I wanted to prove how tough I was.

I think my whole life has been one of sort of daring, and sort of sailing against the wind instead of just going with the wind.

My wife Lorrie actually looked in the dictionary to see what the definition was of heroism because it had been used so much. She found at least one definition is someone who chooses to put themselves at risk to save another.

But heroes, at times, had to be fools.

True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune.

It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.

Withough danger you cannot go beyond danger.

Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.

I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."

No hero is above fear, Percy. And you have risen above every hero. - Poseidon

You can't have bravery without fear...