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 ShawI'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.
Mitch HedbergA 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 hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHow 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 DisraeliAs 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 CampbellIn 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 ShakurIn 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.
Marilyn MansonTeddy 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 ReaganMillions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.
Carroll O'ConnorThe coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
Aristotle