Heroes Quotes
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Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among Mankind. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Grace is given to heal the spiritually sick, not to decorate spiritual heroes (Quote by - Martin Luther)
Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart. (Quote by - Proverb)
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. (Quote by - Joseph Campbell)
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
If one is determined to die for the truth, even a common man can create history. (Quote by - Vellupillai Pirapakaran)
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
Ferryman ho! In the night so black Hark to the clank of iron; 'Tis heroes of the Yser, 'Tis sweethearts of glory, 'Tis lads who are unafraid! Ferryman ho! (Quote by - Lucien Boyer)
It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
A hero is a man who is afraid to run away. (Quote by - English Proverb)
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. (Quote by - Christopher Reeve)
Who is a hero? He who conquers his urges (Quote by - The Talmud)
Don't be so humble. You're not that great. (Quote by - Golda Meir)
Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand. (Quote by - Charles Kingsley)
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. (Quote by - Felix Adler)
The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. . . . . The flames roll'd on--he would not go Without his Father's word; That father, faint in death below, His voice no longer heard. (Quote by - Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans)
I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war. (Quote by - Jim Morrison)
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. (Quote by - Rebecca Harding Davis)
An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness much as plums have to be put into a bad pudding to make it palatable. (Quote by - E. M. Forster)
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning. (Quote by - Indira Gandhi)
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
One of the forms of psychological heroism is the willingness to tolerate anxiety and uncertainty in the pursuit of our values whether these values be work goals, the love of another human being, the raising of a family or personal growth. (Quote by - Samuel Branden)
Rarely do they appear great before their valets. (Quote by - Jean de la Bruyere)
To a valet no man is a hero. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Martyrdom the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood. (Quote by - Irish Proverb)
The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)
Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause. (Quote by - Joseph Hopkinson)
Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall. (Quote by - Homer)
Every hero becomes a bore at last. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
He's of stature somewhat low-- Your hero always should be tall, you know. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Self-trust is the essence of heroism. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race. (Quote by - Stanley Kunitz)
When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value. (Quote by - Mme. A.M. Bigot de Cornuel)
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to sing their praises. (Quote by - Horace)
As the master so the valet. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)
It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward. (Quote by - Dolores Ibarruri)
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper (Quote by - Aristotle)
It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero. (Quote by - Goethe)
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. (Quote by - F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don`t let that taint the thing you love. (Quote by - Randy Milholland)
Only one who liberates himself from his psychological desires and fears indeed in truth qualify as liberation hero. (Quote by - Vellupillai Pirapakaran)
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. (Quote by - Bishop Beilby Porteus)
Ezra Pound idiosyncrasy on a monument. (Quote by - Randall Jarrell)
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape. (Quote by - Barack Obama)
The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict. (Quote by - Andrew Bernstein)
A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as historythey will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity. (Quote by - David C. McCullough)
Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials . . . such as the apple that William Tell never shot, the ride that Paul Revere never finished, the flag that Barbara Frietchie never waved. (Quote by - Gerald Johnson)
The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection, and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. (Quote by - Washington Irving)
It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. (Quote by - Louis Kossuth)
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. (Quote by - Norman Schwarzkopf)
There are heroes in evil as well as in good. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
A hero is a man who does what he can. (Quote by - Romain Rolland)
In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying. (Quote by - R. D. Hitchcock)
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. (Quote by - John Gay)
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. (Quote by - Bob Dylan)
Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress. (Quote by - Chester Himes)
All these were honoured in their generations and were the glory of their times. (Quote by - Bible)
If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero? (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
No man is a hero to his valet. (Quote by - Mme. A.M. Bigot de Cornuel)
Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. (Quote by - Bishop Hugh Latimer)
It hath been an antient custom among them [Hungarians] that none should wear a fether but he who had killed a Turk, to whom onlie yt was lawful to shew the number of his slaine enemys by the number of fethers in his cappe. (Quote by - Richard Hansard)
A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)
A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a human. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be. (Quote by - Fitz-Greene Halleck)
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. (Quote by - Plato)
