Admiration Quote by Elbert Hubbard

“Heroes. Brave men and women who lay down their lives for someone else... Our culture understands heroism. But we don’t understand martyrs.”

— DC Talk

Our national fondness for celebrating the physical heroism of soldiers - the apparent readiness with which they sacrifice their lives to larger causes -…

— Elizabeth Samet

Dead people can be our heroes because they can't disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about…

— Veronica Roth

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no…

— Jean de la Bruyere

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

— Rahm Emanuel

“The world doesn’t need us to be martyrs. The world needs our gifts. It needs our intelligence, our laughter, and yes, our love, but…

— Jessica Ortner

“Those of us with the courage to open ourselves to that much love and not fear it - who can give joy to a…

— Derek Miller

We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself,…

— Mark Twain

We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them.

— Francis A Walker

I think we must cling to the hope that we can see in the great heroism, the bravery of the firemen and policemen, and…

— Jane Goodall

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We always honor our people when they die; we've got to honor them while we're still alive.

— Biz Markie