Heroes And Heroism

(241 votes)   Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ''This was their finest hour.''

Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(208 votes)   You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(189 votes)   There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(185 votes)   My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.

Michael Jordan
1963-, American Basketball Player, Actor

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(176 votes)   Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy --common clay, if you like --eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others --the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.

Jean Anouilh
1910-1987, French Playwright

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(138 votes)   Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(137 votes)   Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.

Alphonse De Lamartine
1790-1869, French Poet, Statesman, Historian

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(131 votes)   You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.

C. D. Andrews
1913-1992, British Poet, Scholar

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(130 votes)   What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

David Lloyd George
1863-1945, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(123 votes)   I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

Lord Chesterfield
1694-1773, British Statesman, Author

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(122 votes)   A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

English Proverbs
Sayings of British Origin

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(119 votes)   It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(118 votes)   The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(103 votes)   True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

Napoleon Bonaparte
1769-1821, French General, Emperor

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(102 votes)   The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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