• Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.0 · 37 votes · 123 reads

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• How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  3.7 · 64 votes · 58 reads

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• I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  3.8 · 18 votes · 173 reads

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• If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  5.0 · 57 votes · 13 reads

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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.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.6 · 5 votes · 70 reads

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• In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.3 · 37 votes · 63 reads

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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.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.2 · 50 votes · 144 reads

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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.''

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.5 · 57 votes · 8 reads

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• Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.6 · 54 votes · 157 reads

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

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  3.8 · 19 votes · 178 reads

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• Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 15 votes · 52 reads

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• The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic can

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.3 · 25 votes · 100 reads

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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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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 17 votes · 2 reads

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• The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.9 · 26 votes · 98 reads

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

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.8 · 5 votes · 39 reads

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

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  3.2 · 13 votes · 175 reads

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• The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  3.7 · 7 votes · 58 reads

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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.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  TheologianSwiss1741 · 18th century

  3.3 · 60 votes · 5 reads

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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.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.6 · 38 votes · 36 reads

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• There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.9 · 47 votes · 8 reads

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

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  3.5 · 59 votes · 92 reads

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• Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

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  Niels Bohr

  PhysicistDanish1885 · 19th century

  3.0 · 33 votes · 43 reads

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• Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

  

  Bertolt Brecht

  WriterGerman1898 · 19th century

  3.7 · 28 votes · 41 reads

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• We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  3.5 · 51 votes · 6 reads

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• What is a hero without love for mankind.

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  Doris Lessing

  WriterBritish1919 · 20th century

  4.1 · 25 votes · 120 reads

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• What is a society without a heroic dimension?

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  3.0 · 18 votes · 129 reads

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

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  David Lloyd George

  PoliticianBritish1863 · 19th century

  3.7 · 35 votes · 196 reads

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• What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes -ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  4.7 · 11 votes · 150 reads

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• You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.1 · 52 votes · 20 reads

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