Motivational Quotes

Heroes and heroism

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

- George, David Lloyd

Best Quotes about Heroes and heroism

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

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

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

Rogers, Will

A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is sensitive; or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture -- in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

A hero is someone right who doesn't change.

Foreman, George

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.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

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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

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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

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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

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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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In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Rogers, Will

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

Proverb, English

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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Miller, Henry

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You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.

Andrews, C. D.

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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

Hayes, Helen

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

Sarton, May

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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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

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

Rogers, Will

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What is a society without a heroic dimension?

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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

Hegel, Georg

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What is a hero without love for mankind.

Lessing, Doris

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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.

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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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

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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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

Jordan, Michael

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It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?

Winterson, Jeanette

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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

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

Thompson, Roy

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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

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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

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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