Quotes about heroes and heroism

"Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket."

Horton, Doug on heroes and heroism   

"A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around."

Howe, Edgar Watson on heroes and heroism
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"What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes --ah, they have all the necessary leisure."

Huxley, Aldous on heroes and heroism
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"The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow."

Irving, Washington on heroes and heroism
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"Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man's frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever."

James, William on heroes and heroism   

"Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials."

Johnson, Gerald W. on heroes and heroism   

"Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy."

Johnson, Samuel on heroes and heroism   

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"My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes."

Jordan, Michael on heroes and heroism   

"A hero is someone we can admire without apology."

Kelley, Kitty on heroes and heroism   

"There are heroes in evil as well as in good."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on heroes and heroism   

"Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on heroes and heroism
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"The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers."

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"All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else."

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich on heroes and heroism   

"What is a hero without love for mankind."

Lessing, Doris on heroes and heroism
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"And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?"

Macaulay, Thomas B. on heroes and heroism   

"Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation."

Mailer, Norman on heroes and heroism   

"In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one."

Mencken, H. L. on heroes and heroism   

"The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference."

Miller, Henry on heroes and heroism
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"Calculation never made a hero."

Newman, John Henry on heroes and heroism   

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"Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money, or the daughter who held her tongue again and again. All this anonymous heroism."

Noonan, Peggy on heroes and heroism
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"No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one."

Paul, Jean on heroes and heroism   

"One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero."

Porteous, Bishop on heroes and heroism   

"A hero is a man who is afraid to run away."

Proverb, English on heroes and heroism
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"As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost."

Renan, Ernest on heroes and heroism   

"The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die."

Rogers, Will on heroes and heroism   

"Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth."

Rogers, Will on heroes and heroism   

"We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by."

Rogers, Will on heroes and heroism
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"Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on heroes and heroism   

"How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?"

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on heroes and heroism   

"One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being."

Sarton, May on heroes and heroism   

"It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle."

Schwarzkopf, Norman on heroes and heroism
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"Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale."

Scott, Robert Falcon on heroes and heroism   

"If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor."

Shakespeare, William on heroes and heroism   

"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."

Shaw, George Bernard on heroes and heroism
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"The more characteristic American hero in the earlier day, and the more beloved type at all times, was not the hustler but the whittler."

Sullivan, Mark on heroes and heroism   

"What makes a hero truly great is that they never despair."

Thompson, Roy on heroes and heroism
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"The great destroyers of nations and men are comfort, plenty and security. A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on."

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"A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big."

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"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy."

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"One brave deed makes no hero."

Whittier, John Greenleaf on heroes and heroism
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