Famous Quotes about Heroes and Heroism (82 Quotations)

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

The more characteristic American hero in the earlier day, and the more beloved type at all times, was not the hustler but the whittler.

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.

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

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.

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.

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.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.

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.

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

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.

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

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

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

What is a hero without love for mankind.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

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

What makes a hero truly great is that they never despair.

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.