“In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.”
“The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.”
“Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.”
“How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?”
“What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.”
“One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.”
“Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.”
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.”
“Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.”
“My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.”
“No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.”
“We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.”
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.”
“Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.”
“We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.”
“The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.”
“No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.”
“It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.”
“True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.”
“Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.”
“The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.”
“Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.”
“If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.”
“Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.”
“A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.”
“The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.”
“The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.”
“The more characteristic American hero in the earlier day, and the more beloved type at all times, was not the hustler but the whittler.”
“To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.”
“What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes --ah, they have all the necessary leisure.”