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| En hjälte är inte modigare än en vanlig man, men är det fem minuter till. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| En hälte är en man som gör det han kan. | Romain Rolland (1866-1944) |
| I krig finns det alltid tio gånger fler hjältar än soldater. | John Gay (1685-1732) |
| Mina hjältar är och var mina föräldrar. Jag kan inte tänka mig ha några andra som hjältar. | Michael Jordan (1963-) |
| If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. | Abigail Adams (1744-1818) |
| The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict. | Andrew Bernstein |
| The hero is the man dedicated to the creation and / or defense of reality-conforming, life-promoting values. | Andrew Bernstein |
| 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. | Arthur Ashe (1943-1993) |
| Heroism 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- | Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828-) |
| That'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 Hand |
| The poetry of heroism appeals irresitably to those who don't go to a war, and even more so to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy | Louis Ferdinand Celine (1894-1961) |
| It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. | Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) |
| Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century. | Mickey Mantle (1931-1995) |
| It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. | H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934-) |
| A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer. | Novalis (1772-1801) |
| The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives. | Pericles |
| Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them | Susanne Curchod Necker |
| Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. | Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) |
| Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion | Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) |
| And each man stand with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can. | Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) |
| Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. | Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) |
| Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of illness, of loneliness and of death. There is no real piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious con | Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) |
| Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom | Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) |
| One brave deed makes no hero. | John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) |
| Calculation never made a hero. | John Henry Newman (1801-1890) |
| The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule | Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) |
| A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success | Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) |
| 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. | Arthur Ashe (1943-1993) |
| Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them! | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. | Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) |
| A hero is a man who does what he can. | Romain Rolland (1866-1944) |
| True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. | Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) |
| If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. | Abigail Adams (1744-1818) |
| We 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 Einstein (1879-1955) |
| It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. | H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934-) |
| That'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 Hand |
| Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen. | Andrew Bernstein |
| The poetry of heroism appeals irresitably to those who don't go to a war, and even more so to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy | Louis Ferdinand Celine (1894-1961) |
| Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of illness, of loneliness and of death. There is no real piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious con | Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) |
| A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war. | Jim Morrison (1943-1971) |
| Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. | Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) |
| And each man stand with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can. | Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) |
| As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule | Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) |
| The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| There are heroes in evil as well as in good | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self. | Charles Horton Cooley |
| Firemen are going to get killed. When they join the department they face that fact. When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work. They were not thinking of getting killed when they went where death lurked. They went there to put the fire out, and got killed. Firefighters do not regard themselves as heroes because they do what the business requires. | Chief Edward F. Croker |
| None meet life honestly and few heroically. | Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) |
| I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman. | Dan Quayle (1947-1947) |
| Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can. | Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) |
| All actual heroes are essential men, / And all men possible heroes... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) |
| Isn't it only natural to leave a place where one is so bitterly hated?...The heroism involved in staying put in spite of it all is the heroism of a cockroach, which also won't be driven out of the bathroom. | Franz Kafka (1883-1924) |
| The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? | Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) |
| A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war. | Jim Morrison (1943-1971) |
| I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one; Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I'll therefore take our ancient frien | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! | Maya Angelou (1928-) |
| A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world | Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) |
| A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Self-trust is the essence of heroism | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Every hero becomes a bore at last. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day. | Ray Bradbury (1920-) |
| It isn't everybody who is the hero of his own romance, and when we meet one he is likely to be a fascinating monster | Robertson Davies (1913-1995) |
| Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| No hero is immortal till he dies | W. H. Auden (1907-1973) |
| The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. | Washington Irving (1783-1859) |
| We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| The better part of valour is discretion. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |