Motivational Quotes

Heroes and heroism

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

- Andrews, C. D.

Best Quotes about Heroes and heroism

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

George, David Lloyd

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

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.

Paul, Jean

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

Genet, Jean

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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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A hero is someone right who doesn't change.

Foreman, George

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

Rogers, Will

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

Proverb, English

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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

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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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What is a society without a heroic dimension?

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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

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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

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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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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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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

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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

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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

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What is a hero without love for mankind.

Lessing, Doris

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

Horton, Doug

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

Miller, Henry

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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

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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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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Thompson, Roy

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

Sarton, May

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

Kelley, Kitty

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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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

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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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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

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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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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