Hero Quotes

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Everyone who does the best he can is a hero. — Josh Billings
Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The hero is suffered to be himself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero? — Cato the Elder
He who masters the grey everyday is a hero. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero. — Natalia Kills
However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money. — Mark Twain
The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense… — Erich Fromm
In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a… — Jean Giraudoux
Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . .… — Thomas Carlyle
All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there is… — Thomas Carlyle
There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in… — Joseph Campbell
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms. — Seneca the Younger
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win… — Martial
My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may… — George Edward Woodberry
To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly… — Albert Einstein
Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies. — George Santayana
Those who see and observe kings, heroes, and statesmen, discover that they have headaches, indigestion, humors and passions, just like other people; every one of… — Lord Chesterfield
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell
A hero is someone right who doesn't change. — George Foreman
Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant. — Stephen Leacock
The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay. — Rebecca Harding Davis
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero. — Mike Royko

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