“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 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”
“Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.”
Andrew Bernstein
“Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion”
Calvin Coolidge
“The hero is the man dedicated to the creation and / or defense of reality-conforming, life-promoting values.”
“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
