“ To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage. - Confucius Analects. ”
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“ A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials. ”
- Gerald W. Johnson- Copy
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“ It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them! ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost. ”
- Ernest Renan- Copy
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“ Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times. ”
- Angus Wilson- Copy
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“ The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
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“ We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too. ”
- Helen Hayes- Copy
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“ The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man's frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
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“ A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. ”
- Joseph Campbell- Copy
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“ A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around. ”
- Edgar Watson Howe- Copy
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“ What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in. ”
- David Lloyd George- Copy
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“ Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. ”
- Alphonse de Lamartine- Copy
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