“And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.”
“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
“The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper”
Aristotle
“Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion”
Calvin Coolidge
“A hero is a man who does what he can.”
Romain Rolland
