Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake.
A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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.
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
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.
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.
The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
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