Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Heroes

Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist

If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. (1875–1966) American Businessman, Philanthropist

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one’s self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–64) American Novelist, Short Story Writer

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
May Sarton (1912–95) American Children’s Books Writer, Poet, Novelist

No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
Jean Paul (1763–1825) German Novelist, Humorist

The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet

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.
Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American Novelist Essayist

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American Actor, Rancher, Humorist

We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.
Noam Chomsky (b.1928) American Linguist, Social Critic

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78) Swiss-born French Philosopher

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.
Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) American Novelist

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
Lawrence Durrell (1912–90) British Biographer, Poet, Playwright, Novelist

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

Success is achievable without public recognition, and the world has many unsung heroes. The teacher who inspires you to pursue your education to your ultimate ability is a success. The parents who taught you the noblest human principles are a success. The coach who shows you the importance of teamwork is a success. The spiritual leader who instills in you spiritual values and faith is a success. The relatives, friends, and neighbors with whom you develop a reciprocal relationship of respect and support—they, too, are successes. The most menial workers can properly consider themselves successful if they perform their best and if the product of their work is of service to humanity.
Michael DeBakey (1908–2008) American Cardiovascular Surgeon

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American Novelist

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Joseph Campbell (1904–87) American Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer

I do not like heroes; they make too much noise in the world. The more radiant their glory, the more odious they are.
Voltaire (1694–1778) French Philosopher, Author

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
Dolores Ibarruri (1895–1989) Spanish Communist Leader

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet

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.
Charles Cooley (1864–1929) American Sociologist

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
Unknown

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet

It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet

The soldiers fight, and the kings are heroes.
Yiddish Proverb

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.”
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Head of State, Political leader, Historian, Journalist, Author

Who is a hero? He who conquers his urges
The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith

Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–59) English Historian, Essayist, Philanthropist

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