True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
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Arthur AsheHeroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held. -
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Bravery never goes out of fashion. -
William Makepeace ThackerayBrave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. -
G. K. ChestertonThe legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. -
Benjamin DisraeliAnd each man stand with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can. -
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningFour things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave. -
MuhammadEach man is a hero and an oracle to somebody. -
Ralph Waldo EmersonThat's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end. -
Lise HandCourage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. -
Billy GrahamThe bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. -
ThucydidesA hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Joseph CampbellValor grows by daring, fear by holding back. -
Publilius SyrusTrue bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world. -
François de la RochefoucauldThe bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. -
Corra HarrisSelf-trust is the essence of heroism. -
Ralph Waldo EmersonA hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer. -
NovalisWe must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart. -
Albert EinsteinIt is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. -
Louis PasteurIt doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. -
Norman SchwarzkopfValor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
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Michel de MontaigneWithout heroes, we are all plain people, and don't know how far we can go.
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Bernard MalamudHeroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves. -
Carol Lynn PearsonI believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance.
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James A. AutryNurture your minds with great thoughts, to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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Benjamin DisraeliCourage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
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Mark TwainHeroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
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Calvin CoolidgeThe hero is the man dedicated to the creation and / or defense of reality-conforming, life-promoting values. -
Andrew BernsteinIn valor there is hope. -
Publius Cornelius TacitusPerfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching. -
François de la RochefoucauldValor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. -
Napoleon BonaparteBravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
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Omar BradleyThe secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.
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ThucydidesI hope these memorial day quotes and poems are enough for you!!!
