Heroes / Heroism
- Hero-worship is mostly idol gossip.
-- Anon.
- The brave man is not he who feels no fear,
For that were stupid and irrational;
But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues,
And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
-- Joanna Baillie
- I am my own heroine.
-- Marie Bashkirtseff
- 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.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
- Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
-- Calvin Coolidge
- No man is a hero to his valet.
-- Anne-Marie Bigot de Cornuel
- Every hero becomes a bore at last.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Most American heroes of the Revolutionary period are by now two men, the actual man and the romantic image. Some are even three men -- the actual man, the image, and the debunked remains.
-- Esther Forbes
- The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
-- Charles H. Fowler
- To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
-- Benjamin Franklin
- People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
-- Oliver Goldsmith
- When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.
-- Heinrich Heine
- As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
-- Ernest Hemingway
- In a truly heroic life there is no preadventure. It is always doing or dying.
-- R.D. Hitchcock
- You don't manage people, you manage things. You lead people.
-- Admiral Grace Hooper
- 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.
-- Ed Howe
- It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
-- Sister Elizabeth Kenny
- The law has no power over heroes.
-- Charlotte Lennox
- Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don't know how far we can go.
-- Bernard Malamud
- In war, the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
-- H. L. Mencken
- I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
-- Wilson Mizner
- Calculation never made a hero.
-- John Henry Newman
- Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.
-- Carol Pearson
- Kill reverence, and you have killed the hero in a man.
-- Edward Rand
- All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
-- Sally Ride
- We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
-- Will Rogers
- The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die.
-- Will Rogers
- Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.
-- Will Rogers
- Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
-- George Bernard Shaw
- Hero worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
-- Herbert Spencer
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