Heroism


Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer. - Norwegian Proverb

We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. - Will Rogers

Everybody has a need for heroes, I think, people to mold themselves after, people they want to be like. You have to be able to dream, but those dreams should be about real people who have actually done things. - Dave Thomas

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go. - Bernard Malamud

Like heroes in a mythic journey, we are meant to struggle to make the right choices. - Caroline Myss

Keep your eye on your heroes, not on your zeroes. - Robert H. Schuller

A hero is a man who is afraid to run away. - English Proverb

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

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes. - Walter Schirra, Sr.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. - Benjamin Disraeli

Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves. Although they may feel very alone during the quest, at its end their reward is a sense of community: with themselves, with other people, and with the earth. - Carol Pearson

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary. - Ernest Hemingway

Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket. - Doug Horton

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. - John Barth

The soldiers fight, and the kings are heroes. - Yiddish Proverb





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