Heroism Quotes - Page 2

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspiring, Sports, Memorial Day

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• Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

  Will Rogers

  Life, Sports, Hero

  Quoted in'A RogersThesaurus' inThe Saturday Review, 25 Aug 1962. Another form of the quote appeared in a syndicated newspaper article,15 Feb1925: 'Heroing is one of the shortestlived professions there is'.

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• I'm saying to be a hero it means you step accross the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes always take a risk. Heroes always deviant. Heroes always doing something that most people don't and we want to change - I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Hero, Mean, Sacrifice

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• A hero is a man who does what he can.

  Romain Rolland

  Life, Positive, Courage

  Romain Rolland (1914). “John Christopher: Storm and Stress”

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• Self trust is the essence of heroism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Running, Wisdom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Adam Starchild (2002). “Character and Heroism”, p.63, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Hero, Men, Valet

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• Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sports, Hero, Firefighter

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• Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

  Fred Rogers

  Memorial Day, Teacher, Children

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• Every hero becomes a bore at last.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Badass, Hipster

  'Representative Men' (1850) 'Uses of Great Men'

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• I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

  Florence Nightingale

  Hero, Nursing, Nurse

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• As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Time, Hero, Age

  "How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen?" by Lillian Ross, www.newyorker.com. May 13, 1950.

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• Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.

  Marc Morial

  Mother, Queens, Equality

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

  Winston Churchill

  Memorial Day, Military, War

  Speech in House of Commons, 20 Aug. 1940

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• Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

  John Barth

  Sports, Hero, Stories

  "How to Seek Heroism in Demands" by Grande Lum, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2009.

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Hero, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.4

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• When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

  Heinrich Heine

  Hero, Literature, Clown

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• 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

  Peace, War, Sacrifice

  Thomas Merton (2010). “The Nonviolent Alternative”, p.35, Macmillan

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• How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

  Maya Angelou

  Strong Women, Veterans Day, Courage

  "Celebrating Our She-roes" by Jill S. Tietjen, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2014.

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• One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

  May Sarton

  Courage, Hero, Thinking

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.72, Open Road Media

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

  Henry Miller

  Hero, Men, Differences

  Henry Miller (1969). “Mémoires, Plaidoiries Et Documents”, p.167, New Directions Publishing

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• I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Sacrifice, Order, Years

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• In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one person? There were so many acts of heroism that day from so many people, whether it be firemen and police officers in New York and our agents also.

  Robert Mueller

  New York, People, Police

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• I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.

  Gene Siskel

  Movie, Able, Schindler

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• A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Hero, World, Heroic

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.404, e-artnow

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• The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Good Life, Successful, Deeds

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