Heroism Quotes by Great Scholars

Heroism Quotes by Great Scholars 

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 try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson: Heroism

You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us. Author: C D Andrews: Heroism

Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy -- common clay, if you like -- eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others -- the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes. Author: Jean Anouilh: Heroism

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. Author: John Barth: Heroism

What is a society without a heroic dimension? 

What is a society without a heroic dimension? Author: Unknown: Heroism

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. Author: Unknown: Heroism

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. Author: Winston Churchill: Heroism

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. Author: Benjamin Disraeli: Heroism

We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. Author: Will Rogers: Heroism

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. Author: Bette Davis: Heroism

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

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

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. Author: Whitehead: Heroism

Every hero becomes a bore at last

Every hero becomes a bore at last. Author: Unknown: Heroism

Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle. Author: D J Enright: Heroism

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in. Author: David Lloyd George: Heroism

Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket

Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket. Author: Doug Horton: Heroism

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. Author: Edgar Watson Howe: Heroism

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. Author: Aldous Huxley: Heroism

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. Author: Washington Irving: Heroism

Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials. Author: Gerald W Johnson: Heroism