Motivational Quotes

Heroes and heroism

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

- Johnson, Gerald W.

Best Quotes about Heroes and heroism

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

Paul, Jean

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Horton, Doug

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

What is a hero without love for mankind.

Lessing, Doris

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

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

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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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 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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A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

Kelley, Kitty

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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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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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb, English

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Rogers, Will

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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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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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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thompson, Roy

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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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Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

Gracian, Baltasar

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One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.

Porteous, Bishop

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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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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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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