“Heroism isn't rising up after a fall. Heroism is preventing self from falling in the first place!”
“Self trust is the essence of heroism.”
“Endurance, after all, was a kind of victory; a kind of heroism, too.”
“The path of the righteous is not determined by the fall, but by the rising after the fall.”
“But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Falling is not important. It is how we get up after the fall that's important.”
“That Beethoven was capable of producing the ultimate musical definition of heroism in this context is itself extraordinary, for he was able to evoke a dream of heroism that neither he nor his native Germany nor his adopted Vienna could express in reality. Perhaps we can only measure the heroism of the Eroica by the depth of fear and uncertainty from with it emerged.”