Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.

Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

Heroism on command, senseless violence and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.

Teach you children poetry, it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

The 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.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage, the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

I answer the heroic question "Death where is they sting?" with "It is here in my heart and mind and memories."

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

Let us perform heroic deeds by working together,

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

I've spent several years in Hollywood and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

There 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.

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

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero, but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things, but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

A 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.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes but it is sort of necessary.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

Heroism is a matter of integrity - becoming more and more at each step ourselves.

My heroes are, and were, my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.

As 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.

In short he was a perfect cavalier,  And to his very valet seemed a hero.

And there is no trade or employment, but the young man following it may become a hero.

Dre 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.

In old times elders used to tell the young children all about the nation's great heroes and saints. Where are such elders today?

In any story the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.

Teddy Roosevelt is still a hero among environmentalists for his conservationist policies.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

I 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