Quotes on Hero Worship

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

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.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.