Quotes on Great Hero

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

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.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found.

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

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

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.