Best Quotes about Heroes and heroism
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
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
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
Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.
Rogers, Will
What makes a hero truly great is that they never despair.
Thompson, Roy
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
Carlyle, Thomas
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
Brecht, Bertolt
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
Coolidge, Calvin
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
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy --common clay, if you like --eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others --the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.
Anouilh, Jean
A hero is someone right who doesn't change.
Foreman, George
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
Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.
Johnson, Gerald W.
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
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
No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
Paul, Jean
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
What is a hero without love for mankind.
Lessing, Doris
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
Gracian, Baltasar
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
Lamartine, Alphonse De
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
Baudrillard, Jean
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
Hegel, Georg
A hero is someone we can admire without apology.
Kelley, Kitty
A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.
Proverb, English
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
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
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
True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
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
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.
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
Mencken, H. L.
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
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
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid... He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.
Chandler, Raymond
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
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
Miller, Henry
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.
We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Rogers, Will
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
The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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 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
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
Sarton, May
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
The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.
Wilson, Angus
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
Shaw, George Bernard
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
Durrell, Lawrence
Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.
Horton, Doug
My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
Jordan, Michael
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