Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.
C. S. LewisCowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once.
William ShakespeareYou cannot be a hero without being a coward.
George Bernard ShawHeroism on command, senseless violence and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert EinsteinI'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.
Mitch HedbergTeach you children poetry, it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Walter ScottA hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
Nathaniel HawthorneThe world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Helen KellerBeing a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
Will RogersHeroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage, the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Jean-Jacques RousseauEvery hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI answer the heroic question "Death where is they sting?" with "It is here in my heart and mind and memories."
Maya AngelouAspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
Baltasar GracianLet us perform heroic deeds by working together,
Sai BabaShow me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
F. Scott FitzgeraldMyths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
Ansel AdamsI've spent several years in Hollywood and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
Wilson MiznerThere is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
John KeatsHeroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
Calvin CoolidgeHow important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Maya AngelouA good novel tells us the truth about its hero, but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert K. ChestertonA hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob DylanHow many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive
Joseph CampbellNurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin DisraeliA hero is born among a hundred; a wise man is found among a thousand; but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
PlatoI think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob DylanAs you get older it is harder to have heroes but it is sort of necessary.
Ernest HemingwayIn war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
H. L. MenckenHeroism is a matter of integrity - becoming more and more at each step ourselves.
Joseph CampbellMy heroes are, and were, my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
Michael JordanAs much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
John AdamsIn short he was a perfect cavalier, And to his very valet seemed a hero.
Lord ByronAnd there is no trade or employment, but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt WhitmanDre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.
Tupac ShakurTeddy Roosevelt is still a hero among environmentalists for his conservationist policies.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerHeroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.
Ronald ReaganThe coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
AristotleI want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till after cloying the gazettes with can't, The age discovers he is not the true one, Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I'll therefore take our ancient friend
Lord Byron