Quotes about heroes and heroism




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"The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by."

Adler, Felix on heroes and heroism
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"You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us."

Andrews, C. D. on heroes and heroism    Share

"They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again."

Bangs, Lester on heroes and heroism    Share

"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story."

Barth, John on heroes and heroism    Share

"What is a society without a heroic dimension?"

Baudrillard, Jean on heroes and heroism    Share

"The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history."

Beecher, Henry Ward on heroes and heroism    Share

"True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on heroes and heroism
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"Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes."

Brecht, Bertolt on heroes and heroism    Share

"Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men."

Carlyle, Thomas on heroes and heroism    Share

"The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so."

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand on heroes and heroism
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"I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward."

Chesterfield, Lord on heroes and heroism    Share

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

Churchill, Winston on heroes and heroism
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"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour."

Churchill, Winston on heroes and heroism
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"The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet."

Cleaver, Eldridge on heroes and heroism    Share

"To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self."

Cooley, Charles Horton on heroes and heroism    Share

"Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion."

Coolidge, Calvin on heroes and heroism    Share

"The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example."

Disraeli, Benjamin on heroes and heroism    Share

"Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were."

Durrell, Lawrence on heroes and heroism    Share

"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."

Dylan, Bob on heroes and heroism
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"Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life."

Eliot, George on heroes and heroism    Share

"Every hero becomes a bore at last."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on heroes and heroism    Share

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"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on heroes and heroism
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"Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on heroes and heroism
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"Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle."

Enright, D. J. on heroes and heroism    Share

"A hero is someone right who doesn't change."

Foreman, George on heroes and heroism
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"I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me."

Garibaldi, Giuseppe on heroes and heroism    Share

"The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them."

Genet, Jean on heroes and heroism    Share

"What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in."

George, David Lloyd on heroes and heroism    Share

"It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on heroes and heroism    Share

"The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on heroes and heroism
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"Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one."

Gracian, Baltasar on heroes and heroism
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"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on heroes and heroism    Share

"We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too."

Hayes, Helen on heroes and heroism    Share

"No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet."

Hegel, Georg on heroes and heroism    Share

"Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions."

Hegel, Georg on heroes and heroism    Share

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