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These heroes are dead. They died for liberty - they died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless, under the solemn pines, the sad hemlocks, the tearful willows, and the embracing vines. They sleep beneath the shadows of the clouds, careless alike of sunshine or of storm, each in the windowless Place of Rest. Earth may run red with other wars - they are at peace. In the midst of battle, in the roar of conflict, they found the serenity of death. I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
-Washington Irving
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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
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Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.
-Gerald W. Johnson
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
-Samuel Johnson
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My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
-Michael Jordan
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A hero is someone we can admire without apology.
-Kitty Kelley
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Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
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The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
-Johann Kaspar Lavater
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All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else.
-Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)
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What is a hero without love for mankind.
-Doris Lessing
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And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
-Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
-Norman Mailer
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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
-H. L. Mencken
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The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
-Henry Miller
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Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money, or the daughter who held her tongue again and again. All this anonymous heroism.
-Peggy Noonan
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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
-George Orwell
The Art of Donald McGill
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No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
-Jean Paul
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One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
-Bishop Beilby Porteus
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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
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die.
-Will Rogers
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Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.
-Will Rogers
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We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
-Will Rogers
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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Books about Heroes/Heroism
