Hero quotes
3.2K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period."
"It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build."
"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth."
"No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free."
"The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars."
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"Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them."
"There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were."
"Advance like a hero. Do not be thwarted by anything. How many days will this body last, with its happiness and misery? When you have the human body, then rouse the Atman within and say-I have reached the state of fearlessness!...and then as long as the body endures, speak unto others this message of fearlessness: 'Thou art That', 'Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached'"
"God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road seems dreary and endless, the skies gray and threatening; when our lives have no music in them, and our hearts are lonely, and our souls have lost their courage. Flood the path with light, run our eyes to where the skies are full of promise; tune our hearts to brave music; give us the sense of comradeship with heroes and saints of every age; and so quicken our spirits that we may be able to encourage the souls of all who journey with us on the road of life, to your honor and glory."
"Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror."
"We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil."
"Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world."
"I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people."
"I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb."
"It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes."
"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune."
"A true hero protects his identiy, not out of fear, but out of humility."
"Heroes come and go, but legends are forever."
"Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today."
"The man who fights against his own country is never a hero."
"Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony."
"Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes."
"A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor."
"Grace was not given to heal the spiritually sick but to decorate spiritual heroes!"
"One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero."
