Quotes About Heroism

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A hero is a man who does what he can. ~ Romain Rolland


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. ~Plato


It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. ~ Louis Pasteur


By hero, we tend to mean a heightened man who, more than other men, possesses qualities of courage, loyalty, resourcefulness, charisma, above all, selflessness. He is an example of right behavior; the sort of man who risks his life to protect his society's values, sacrificing his personal needs for those of the community. ~ Paul Zweig


A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer. ~ Novalis


A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


You cannot be a hero without being a coward. ~ George Bernard Shaw


The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. ~ Umberto Eco


The hero is the man dedicated to the creation and / or defense of reality-conforming, life-promoting values. ~ Andrew Bernstein


Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. ~Benjamin Disraeli


The most heroic word in all languages is revolution. ~ Eugene Debs


Self-trust is the essence of heroism. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self. ~ Charles Horton Cooley


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



The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule. ~ Miguel de Unamuno



Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of illness, of loneliness and of death. There is no real piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious con. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel


Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. ~ Thomas Merton


Hero worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson