Character Quote by Samuel Smiles

There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.

— Jacques Maritain

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

— Luigi Pirandello

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

People aren't universally heroic.

— Alexei Sayle

I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their…

— Thor Heyerdahl

Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a…

— Gregg Easterbrook

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

— Edward Albert

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

— Calvin Coolidge

I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . .

— Harvey Pekar

I have seen heroics - soldiers saving other soldiers' lives - and horrors.

— Richard Engel

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something.

— Criss Jami

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events

— David Brin