Heroes and Heroism Quotes
40 quotations about Heroes and Heroism
Calculation never made a hero.
No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.
The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die.
Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.
We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
What makes a hero truly great is that they never despair.
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
One brave deed makes no hero.
You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.
Authors on Heroes and Heroism
C. D. Andrews
John Barth
Jean Baudrillard
Bertolt Brecht
Thomas Carlyle
Winston Churchill
Calvin Coolidge
Benjamin Disraeli
Ralph Waldo Emerson
English Proverb
George Foreman
David Lloyd George
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Baltasar Gracian
Helen Hayes
Doug Horton
Gerald W. Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Michael Jordan
Kitty Kelley