Hero Quotes

2488 Hero quotes by 1701 unique authors

One person can and does make a difference. — Albert Schweitzer
Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But we… — Wilferd Peterson
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero, he is everything.… — Raymond Chandler
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting… — Jean Anouilh
If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate… — Wilfred Trotter
Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored Information, by the cells? And… — Albert Claude
My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole man. ... Where… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in the history of… — Ernest Rutherford
Walking the streets of Tokyo with Hawking in his wheelchair ... I felt as if I were taking a walk through Galilee with Jesus Christ… — Freeman Dyson
Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and I wish he would have… — A. Whitney Brown
If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero? — Thomas Carlyle
A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our paths — Daisaku Ikeda
The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the edge, the certainty… — James Hillman
I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and… — Laurens van der Post
He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England… — Oscar Wilde
Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a… — William Ralph Inge
He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is… — Washington Irving
[The papists] ought to have sympathy with us weak, poor Christians, and not condemn us or make fun of us because we are learning so… — Martin Luther
Any number of my former brothers felt they would make heroes of themselves in the Nation of Islam if they killed me. ...I knew that… — Malcolm X
In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to… — Max Lerner

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