Common Quote by Jacques Maritain

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

— Lloyd Alexander

Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about…

— Samuel Smiles

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

— Calvin Coolidge

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

— Thomas Carlyle

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

— Luigi Pirandello

“what makes and ordinary person heroic is when they give up the thing they want most”

— Jane Heller

Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will…

— Laurens van der Post

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I am no heroic figure, but a man like any other, capable of selfish and selfless at once, of light and dark, courage and…

— Brian Doyle

... many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.

— Max Ehrmann

I am well aware that there is such a great craving in man for heroism and the heroic, and that hero worship forms not…

— Aung San