Beam Quote by James Russell Lowell

All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there…

— Thomas Carlyle

The assembled souls of all that men held wise.

— William Davenant

Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have…

— Henry Fielding

“Heroes abound at the dawn of civilizations, during pre-Homeric and Gothic epochs, when people, not having yet experienced spiritual torture, satisfy their thirst for…

— Emil Cioran

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.

— Silvia Cartwright

Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of…

— John Osborne

“For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or fine weather,…

— Hippocrates

My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“You cannot be a hero unless you are prepared to give up everything; there is no ascent to the heights without a prior descent…

— Karen Armstrong

There have been heroes for whom this world seemed expressly prepared, as if creation had at last succeeded; whose daily life was the stuff…

— Henry David Thoreau

“We worship numberless gods or idols, but we all need to be the grandest possible versions of ourselves, we need to walk across the…

— Michael Cunningham

The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the…

— Thomas Carlyle