(110 quotes found)
“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
“True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.”
Alfred North Whitehead
“One brave deed makes no hero.”
John Greenleaf Whittier
“It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.”
Louis Pasteur
“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”
Thomas Merton
“Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-”
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
“If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.”
Abigail Adams
“We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart.”
Albert Einstein
“Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion”
Calvin Coolidge
“A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.”
Novalis
