“Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion”
Calvin Coolidge
“It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.”
Malcolm S. Forbes
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody”
“A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.”
Plato
“A hero is a man who does what he can.”
Romain Rolland
“The hero is the man dedicated to the creation and / or defense of reality-conforming, life-promoting values.”
Andrew Bernstein