(110 quotes found)
“Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer”
Norwegian Proverb
“A hero is a man who does what he can.”
Romain Rolland
“The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.”
Helen Keller
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes”
Benjamin Disraeli
“A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success”
Otto von Bismarck
“The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule”
Miguel de Unamuno
“As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary”
Ernest Hemingway
“That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end”
Lise Hand
“I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one; Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I'll therefore take our ancient frien”
Lord Byron
“Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of illness, of loneliness and of death. There is no real piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious con”
Henri Frederic Amiel
