“Volunteering is an act of heroism, ... I hope that you will continue to be heroes during your time at Yale.”
Peter Salovey
“when the world gives you a hero you turn him into a zero”
mark ibrahim
“Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.”
Elbert Hubbard
“What makes one heroic? -- Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”
Christopher Reeve
“Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!”
Albert Einstein
“The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.”
Benjamin Disraeli