A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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.
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
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 cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake.
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
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.
But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found.
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