#Heroes Quotes

“Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.”

“May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen? There never has been, I suppose, in all the world, in all the history of war, such an opportunity for youth. The Knights of the Round Table, the Crusaders, all fall back into the past.”

“A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor.”

“We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.”

“There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.”

“The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity”

“Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.”

“Your country requiresheroes; be heroes; yourduty is to go on working,and then everything willfollow of itself.”

“The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.”

“Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look.”

“These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.”

“Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.”

“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.”

“We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes”

“Heroes are made in the hour of defeat”

“Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.”

“Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.”

“A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in thegreat sense, and men, serve the state with their conscience also,and so necessarily resist it for the most part, and they arecommonly treated as enemies by it.”

“Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.”

“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”

“We should never forget those on whose shoulders we stand and those who paid the supreme price for freedom.”

“I have always admired men and women who used their talents to serve the community, and who were highly respected and admired for their efforts and sacrifices, even though they held no office whatsoever in government or society.”

“Not every flying hero has a cape.”

“My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.”

“Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.”

“When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed, and left only vermin in its desolate streets. It is the imagination of poets which puts those brave speeches into the mouths of their heroes.”

“To a valet no man is a hero.”

“Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.”

“If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.”

“Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.”

“The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.”

“It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.”

“For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.”

“The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.”

“The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that hein some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages.”

“I couldn't say no to A. Philip Randolph and no to Martin Luther King, Jr. These two men, I loved them, I admired them, and they were my heroes.”

“Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course; but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out loud of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards. And people will say: 'Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring' and they'll say 'Oh yes, that's one of my favorite stories.”

“I wonder if people will ever say, 'Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring.' And they'll say 'Yes, that's one of my favorite stories. Frodo was really courageous, wasn't he, Dad?' 'Yes, my boy, the most famousest of hobbits. And that's saying a lot.'”

“Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.”

“All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom struggles and so on.”

“Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.”

“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”

“Men of real talents in Arms have commonly approved themselves patrons of the liberal arts and friends to the poets, of their own as well as former times. In some instances by acting reciprocally, heroes have made poets, and poets heroes.”

“As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is.”

“No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .”

“Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.”

“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”

“Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.”

“The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler”

“Teachers and nurses get the best seats in Heaven.”