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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Hero_lion_Dur-Sharrukin_Louvre_AO19862.jpg/220px-Hero_lion_Dur-Sharrukin_Louvre_AO19862.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="513" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Hero_lion_Dur-Sharrukin_Louvre_AO19862.jpg/330px-Hero_lion_Dur-Sharrukin_Louvre_AO19862.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Hero_lion_Dur-Sharrukin_Louvre_AO19862.jpg/440px-Hero_lion_Dur-Sharrukin_Louvre_AO19862.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="2800" /></a><figcaption>The heroes, the wise men, like the new moon have their waxing and waning. ~ <a href="/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh" title="Epic of Gilgamesh">Epic of Gilgamesh</a></figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hero" class="extiw" title="w:hero">Heroes</a></b> (singular: <b>hero</b>, or sometimes <b>heroine</b>) is a real person or a main fictional character who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, courage, or strength. Like other formerly solely gender-specific terms (like actor), hero is often used to refer to any gender, though heroine only refers to women. The original hero type of classical epics did such things for the sake of glory and honor. Post-classical and modern heroes, on the other hand, perform great deeds or selfless acts for the common good instead of the classical goal of wealth, pride, and fame. Other terms associated with the concept of hero may include good guy or white hat. are persons of great <a href="/wiki/Courage" title="Courage">courage</a> who perform extraordinary and praiseworthy <a href="/wiki/Deeds" title="Deeds">deeds</a>. </p> <div role="navigation" style="margin-left: 2em;"> <p>Arranged alphabetically by author or source:<br /><a href="#A">A</a> · <a href="#B">B</a> · <a href="#C">C</a> · <a href="#D">D</a> · <a href="#E">E</a> · <a href="#F">F</a> · <a href="#G">G</a> · <a href="#H">H</a> · <a href="#I">I</a> · <a href="#J">J</a> · <a href="#K">K</a> · <a href="#L">L</a> · <a href="#M">M</a> · <a href="#N">N</a> · <a href="#O">O</a> · <a href="#P">P</a> · <a href="#Q">Q</a> · <a href="#R">R</a> · <a href="#S">S</a> · <a href="#T">T</a> · <a href="#U">U</a> · <a href="#V">V</a> · <a href="#W">W</a> · <a href="#X">X</a> · <a href="#Y">Y</a> · <a href="#Z">Z</a> · <i><a href="#Hoyt's_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations">Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</a></i> · <i><a href="#Dictionary_of_Burning_Words_of_Brilliant_Writers''_(1895)">Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers</a></i> · <a href="#See_also">See also</a> · <a href="#External_links">External links</a> </p> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heroes&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="A">A</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heroes&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: A"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Heroism" class="mw-redirect" title="Heroism">Heroism</a> is the brilliant triumph of the <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a> over the flesh — that is to say, over <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">fear</a>: fear of <a href="/wiki/Poverty" title="Poverty">poverty</a>, of <a href="/wiki/Suffering" title="Suffering">suffering</a>, of calumny, of <a href="/wiki/Sickness" class="mw-redirect" title="Sickness">sickness</a>, of isolation, and of <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a>. There is no serious <a href="/wiki/Piety" title="Piety">piety</a> without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of <a href="/wiki/Courage" title="Courage">courage</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henri-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Amiel" title="Henri-Frédéric Amiel">Henri-Frédéric Amiel</a>, Journal entry dated 1 October 1849, <i>Journal Intime</i> (1882)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>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. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Ashe" title="Arthur Ashe">Arthur Ashe</a>, in <i>Worth Repeating : More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes</i> (2003) by Bob Kelly, p. 169.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="B">B</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heroes&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: B"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Statue_of_Achilles_-_geograph.org.uk_-_397793.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Statue_of_Achilles_-_geograph.org.uk_-_397793.jpg/250px-Statue_of_Achilles_-_geograph.org.uk_-_397793.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Statue_of_Achilles_-_geograph.org.uk_-_397793.jpg/330px-Statue_of_Achilles_-_geograph.org.uk_-_397793.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Statue_of_Achilles_-_geograph.org.uk_-_397793.jpg/500px-Statue_of_Achilles_-_geograph.org.uk_-_397793.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="426" /></a><figcaption>Oh, we can be heroes just for one <a href="/wiki/Day" title="Day">day</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/David_Bowie" title="David Bowie">David Bowie</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brian_Eno" title="Brian Eno">Brian Eno</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>The hero is the world-man, in whose <a href="/wiki/Heart" title="Heart">heart</a> <br /> One <a href="/wiki/Passion" title="Passion">passion</a> stands for all, the most indulged. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philip_James_Bailey" title="Philip James Bailey">Philip James Bailey</a>, <i>Festus</i> (1839), "Proem.", line 114-115.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to let him know the world hadn't ended. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Batman">Batman</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_Rises" title="The Dark Knight Rises">The Dark Knight Rises</a></i> (2012)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>They died to save their country and they only saved the world. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hilaire_Belloc" title="Hilaire Belloc">Hilaire Belloc</a>, <i>The English Graves</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>They were no iron men, but they were heroes. Seamen and clothing workers, clerks and artists, students and fathers of families. The phrase you heard so many times- 'united in a common cause'- it meant everything, and it meant nothing. For you could not hold an abstract idea in your mind at the front. You became aware at moments that the idea had never disappeared; that it was behind everything you did, behind the necessity you felt to do the job and do it well. It was something you did not talk about; it was something you took for granted. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alvah_Bessie" title="Alvah Bessie">Alvah Bessie</a>, <i>Men in Battle: A Story of American in Spain</i> (1939), p. 108</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Though <a href="/wiki/Nothing" class="mw-redirect" title="Nothing">nothing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nihilism" title="Nihilism">nothing will keep</a> us <a href="/wiki/Unity" title="Unity">together</a> <br /> We can beat them, <a href="/wiki/Eternity" title="Eternity">forever</a> and <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">ever</a> <br /> Oh, we can be <a class="mw-selflink selflink">heroes</a> just for one day.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David_Bowie" title="David Bowie">David Bowie</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brian_Eno" title="Brian Eno">Brian Eno</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_(David_Bowie_song)" class="extiw" title="w:Heroes (David Bowie song)">"Heroes"</a></i>, on <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Heroes%22" class="extiw" title="w:"Heroes"">"Heroes"</a></i> (1977).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Andrea</b>: Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero.<br /><b>Galileo</b>: No, Andrea: Unhappy is the land that needs a hero. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht" title="Bertolt Brecht">Bertolt Brecht</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Galileo" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Life of Galileo">Life of Galileo</a></i> (1938), Scene 12, p. 115.</li> <li>Variant translations: Pity the country that needs heroes.<br />Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I want a hero: an uncommon want,<br />When every year and month sends forth a new one. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Byron" title="Lord Byron">Lord Byron</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Don_Juan_(Byron)" title="Don Juan (Byron)">Don Juan</a></i> (1818-24), Canto I, Stanza 1.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="C">C</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heroes&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: C"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>If everyone's a hero, then the word doesn't mean much anymore. And sooner or later we'll have to give the real heroes (the heroic ones) a new name, to distinguish them from the rest of the pack. Too bad "superheroes" is already taken. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Carlin" title="George Carlin">George Carlin</a>, <i>When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops</i> (2004), "Heroes Who Died for Their Country".</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Thomas Carlyle</a>, <i>Heroes and Hero-Worship</i> (1840), Lecture I.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If Hero mean sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Thomas Carlyle</a>, <i>Heroes and Hero-Worship</i> (1840), Lecture IV.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among Mankind. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle" title="Thomas Carlyle">Thomas Carlyle</a>, <i>Sartor Resartus</i>, <i>Organic Filaments</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Nature seldom makes a hero and Fortune does not always proclaim those that she makes. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina,_Queen_of_Sweden" class="extiw" title="w:Christina, Queen of Sweden">Christina, Queen of Sweden</a>, <i>Maxims of a Queen</i>, selected and translated by Una Birch (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1907), p. 25.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>He's of stature somewhat low—<br />Your hero always should be tall, you know. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Churchill" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Churchill">Charles Churchill</a>, <i>The Rosciad</i> (1761), line 1,029.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What has suddenly happened is that the white race has lost its heroes. Worse, its heroes have been revealed as villains and its greatest heroes as the arch-villains. The new generations of whites, appalled by the sanguine and despicable record carved over the face of the globe by their race in the last five hundred years, are rejecting the panoply of white heroes, whose heroism consisted in erecting the inglorious edifice of <a href="/wiki/Colonialism" title="Colonialism">colonialism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Imperialism" title="Imperialism">imperialism</a>; heroes whose careers rested on a system of foreign and domestic <a href="/wiki/Exploitation" title="Exploitation">exploitation</a>, rooted in the myth of white supremacy and the manifest destiny of the white race. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eldridge_Cleaver" title="Eldridge Cleaver">Eldridge Cleaver</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_on_Ice_(book)" class="extiw" title="w:Soul on Ice (book)">Soul on Ice</a></i> (1968), p. 90</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="D">D</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heroes&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: D"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>A hero is an average person who has done something extraordinary. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ann_E._Dunwoody" title="Ann E. Dunwoody">Ann E. Dunwoody</a>, <i>A Higher Standard</i> (2015)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="E">E</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heroes&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: E"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SamsonDestroyTemple.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/SamsonDestroyTemple.jpg/220px-SamsonDestroyTemple.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="323" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/SamsonDestroyTemple.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="245" data-file-height="360" /></a><figcaption>[Jews needed] a hero who could <a href="/wiki/Protect" class="mw-redirect" title="Protect">protect</a> us against <a href="/wiki/Nazism" title="Nazism">an almost invincible force</a>. So [Siegel and Shuster] created an <a href="/w/index.php?title=Invincible&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Invincible (page does not exist)">invincible</a> hero. ~ <a href="/wiki/Will_Eisner" title="Will Eisner">Will Eisner</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>[Jews needed] a hero who could <a href="/wiki/Protect" class="mw-redirect" title="Protect">protect</a> us against <a href="/wiki/Nazism" title="Nazism">an almost invincible force</a>. So [Siegel and Shuster] created an <a href="/w/index.php?title=Invincible&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Invincible (page does not exist)">invincible</a> hero. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Will_Eisner" title="Will Eisner">Will Eisner</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://reformjudaismmag.net/03fall/comics.shtml">"How the Jews Created the Comic Book Industry Part I: The Golden Age (1933-1955) Reform Judaism"</a>, Arie Kaplan, <i>Reform Judaism Mag.net</i>, (2003).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The hero is not fed on sweets,<br />Daily his own heart he eats;<br />Chambers of the great are jails,<br />And head-winds right for royal sails. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a>, <i>Essays</i>, Heroism. Introduction.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Self-trust is the essence of heroism. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a>, <i>Essay</i>, <i>Heroism</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a>, <i>Letters and Social Aims</i> (1876), <i>Quotation and Originality</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The heroes, the <a href="/wiki/Wise" class="mw-redirect" title="Wise">wise</a> men, like the new <a href="/wiki/Nanna" class="mw-redirect" title="Nanna">moon</a> have their waxing and waning. <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh" title="Epic of Gilgamesh">Epic of Gilgamesh</a></i>, translated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Sandars" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Nancy Sandars">Nancy Sandars</a>, 1960, <i>Penguin Classics</i>, Third edition, 1972</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The fundamental principle underlying all justifications of <a href="/wiki/War" title="War">war</a>, from the point of view of human personality, is 'heroism'. War, it is said, offers man the opportunity to awaken the hero who sleeps within him. War breaks the routine of comfortable life; by means of its severe ordeals, it offers a transfiguring knowledge of life, life according to <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a>. The moment the individual succeeds in living as a hero, even if it is the final moment of his earthly life, weighs infinitely more on the scale of values than a protracted existence spent consuming monotonously among the trivialities of cities.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Julius_Evola" title="Julius Evola">Julius Evola</a>, <i>Metaphysics of War</i> [2007], p. 21</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="G">G</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heroes&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: G"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Es gibt für den Kammerdiener keinen Helden.</i> <ul><li>To a valet no man is a hero.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe" title="Johann Wolfgang von Goethe">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</a>, <i>Wahlverwandtschaften</i>, II. 5. Aus Ottilien's Tagebüche.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="H">H</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heroes&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: H"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Closeup_of_Achilles_thniskon_in_Corfu_Achilleion_autocorrected.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Closeup_of_Achilles_thniskon_in_Corfu_Achilleion_autocorrected.JPG/250px-Closeup_of_Achilles_thniskon_in_Corfu_Achilleion_autocorrected.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Closeup_of_Achilles_thniskon_in_Corfu_Achilleion_autocorrected.JPG/330px-Closeup_of_Achilles_thniskon_in_Corfu_Achilleion_autocorrected.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Closeup_of_Achilles_thniskon_in_Corfu_Achilleion_autocorrected.JPG/500px-Closeup_of_Achilles_thniskon_in_Corfu_Achilleion_autocorrected.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption>Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall.. ~ <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>It hath been an antient custom among them [Hungarians] that none should wear a fether but he who had killed a Turk, to whom onlie yt was lawful to shew the number of his slaine enemys by the number of fethers in his cappe. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hansard" class="extiw" title="w:Richard Hansard">Richard Hansard</a>, <i>Description of Hungary</i>, Anno 1599. Lansdowne Manuscript, 775, Volume 149. British Museum.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Es gibt keinen Helden für den Kammerdiener; nicht aber weil jener nicht ein Held, sondern weil dieser – der Kammerdiener ist, mit welchem jener nicht als Held, sondern als Essender, Trinkender, sich Kleidender, überhaupt in der Einzelnheit des Bedürfnisses und der Vorstellung zu tun hat. So gibt es für das Beurteilen keine Handlung, in welcher es nicht die Seite der Einzelnheit der Individualität der allgemeinen Seite der Handlung entgegensetzen, und gegen den Handelnden den Kammerdiener der Moralität machen könnte.</i> <ul><li>No man is a hero to his valet; not, however, because the man is not a hero, but because the valet —— is a valet, whose dealings are with the man, not as a hero, but as one who eats, drinks, and wears clothes, in general, with his individual wants and fancies. Thus, for the judging consciousness, there is no action in which it could not oppose to the universal aspect of the action, the personal aspect of the individuality, and play the part of the moral valet towards the agent. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel" title="Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel">Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel</a>, <i>The Phenomenology of Spirit</i>, Ch. BB-VI-C.c. p. 404</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>, <i>The Iliad</i>, Book XV, line 157. Pope's translation.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona<br />Multi: sed omnes illacrimabiles<br />Urgentur, ignotique longa<br />Nocte, carent quia vate sacro</i>. <ul><li>Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to sing their praises.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a>, <i>Carmina</i>, IV. 9. 25.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="I">I</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heroes&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: I"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Washington_Irving" title="Washington Irving">Washington Irving</a>, <i>The Sketch Book</i>, <i>Westminster Abbey</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="K">K</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heroes&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: K"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Someone can conquer kingdoms and countries without being a hero; someone else can prove himself a hero by controlling his temper. Someone can display courage by doing the out-of-the-ordinary, another by doing the ordinary. The question is always-how does he do it? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Soren_Kierkegaard" class="mw-redirect" title="Soren Kierkegaard">Soren Kierkegaard</a> <i>Either/Or Part II</i>, Hong, p. 298 (1843).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="L">L</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heroes&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: L"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coloured,_textured_craft_card.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Coloured%2C_textured_craft_card.jpg/220px-Coloured%2C_textured_craft_card.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="151" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Coloured%2C_textured_craft_card.jpg/330px-Coloured%2C_textured_craft_card.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Coloured%2C_textured_craft_card.jpg/440px-Coloured%2C_textured_craft_card.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3258" data-file-height="2240" /></a><figcaption>There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with. ~ <a href="/wiki/Gerald_Stanley_Lee" title="Gerald Stanley Lee">Gerald Stanley Lee</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Another definition of a hero is someone who is concerned about other people's well-being, and will go out of his or her way to help them -- even if there is no chance of a reward. That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stan_Lee" title="Stan Lee">Stan Lee</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cyberspacers.com/exclusive/08020302.html"><i>Cyberspacers</i></a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Crowds speak in heroes. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gerald_Stanley_Lee" title="Gerald Stanley Lee">Gerald Stanley Lee</a>, <i>Crowds</i> (1913), Book IV, Chapter III.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gerald_Stanley_Lee" title="Gerald Stanley Lee">Gerald Stanley Lee</a>, <i>Crowds</i> (1913), Book V, Part III, Chapter XVI.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If everyone in your class has heroes and they can relate to them in <a href="/wiki/Textbooks" class="mw-redirect" title="Textbooks">textbooks</a> and <a href="/wiki/Literature" title="Literature">literature</a>, and then you don't see any of your <a href="/w/index.php?title=Heritage&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Heritage (page does not exist)">heritage</a> there, you feel less than. And I always wanted to be able to make <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> kids like myself feel more than. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Leguizamo" title="John Leguizamo">John Leguizamo</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.npr.org/2017/04/12/523631629/actor-john-leguizamo-s-career-goal-to-give-latino-kids-their-own-heroes">"Actor John Leguizamo's Career Goal: To Give Latino Kids Their Own Heroes"</a>, <i>All Things Considered</i>, (April 12, 2017).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You see all these <a href="/wiki/White_people" title="White people">white</a> heroes, everybody is white, all the <a href="/wiki/Literature" title="Literature">literature</a> <a href="/wiki/Classes" class="mw-redirect" title="Classes">classes</a>—your <a href="/wiki/Shakespeare" class="mw-redirect" title="Shakespeare">Shakespeare</a>, your <a href="/wiki/Poetry" title="Poetry">poetry</a> — everybody’s white, and you start to feel less than. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Leguizamo" title="John Leguizamo">John Leguizamo</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/broadway-s-john-leguizamo-shares-four-favorite-latino-heroes-n936676">"Broadway's John Leguizamo shares four favorite Latino heroes"</a>, Arturo Conde, <i>NBC News</i>, (Nov. 16, 2018).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A real hero saves everyone. <ul><li>John Leguizamo, <i>Latin History for Morons</i>, (2018)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Dost thou know what a hero is? Why, a hero is as much as one should say,—a hero. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow" title="Henry Wadsworth Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(Longfellow_novel)" class="extiw" title="w:Hyperion (Longfellow novel)">Hyperion</a></i> (1839), Book I, Chapter I.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>'Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves<br />Of a legendary virtue carved upon our father's graves. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Russell_Lowell" title="James Russell Lowell">James Russell Lowell</a>, <i>The Present Crisis</i>, Stanza 15.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="M">M</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heroes&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: M"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Bob Forestier had pretended for so many years to be a <a href="/wiki/Gentleman" class="mw-redirect" title="Gentleman">gentleman</a> that in the end, forgetting that it was all a fake, he had found himself driven to act as in that stupid, conventional brain of his he thought a gentleman must act. No longer knowing the difference between sham and real, he had sacrificed his life to a spurious heroism. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham" title="W. Somerset Maugham">W. Somerset Maugham</a>, <i>Collected short stories 1</i>, "The lion's skin", p. 283.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>People would be amazed at the behind-the-scenes activity in hero-making; quarrels over which cases are most deserving; seeing that all ranks and units are properly represented; dressing up weak cases to make them appear stronger; last minute switches from one class of decoration to another. … The number of decorations is determined, not by the number of deserving cases, but by the number and types of medals the admiral totes along. <ul><li>Herbert Merillat, in <i>Guadalcanal Remembered</i> (1982); also in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/29/AR2010042904354.html">"Herbert Merillat; wrote about what he saw at Guadalcanal" by Adam Bernstein in <i>The Washington Post</i> (2 May 2010)</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Tel a esté miraculeux au monde, auquel sa femme et son valet n'ont rien veu seulement de remarquable; peu d'hommes ont esté admirez par leur domestiques</i>. <ul><li>Such an one has been, as it were, miraculous in the world, in whom his wife and valet have seen nothing even remarkable; few men have been admired by their servants.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne" title="Michel de Montaigne">Michel de Montaigne</a>, <i>Essays</i>, Book III, Chapter II.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="P">P</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heroes&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: P"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Even as a kid, it wasn’t to big stories of heroism that I listened but to the everyday people on my block more than anything else. Since I thought of my father and mother as somewhat heroic in their early years, what interested me tremendously was how this whole other world of people living every day, how they lived their lives. I think most people are heroic to a degree, they’re heroic in caring for the lives of the people around them and not dumping each other or dumping on each other. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Grace_Paley" title="Grace Paley">Grace Paley</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bostonreview.net/articles/grace-paley-interview-gail-pool-shirley-roses/">Interview</a> with Boston Review (1976)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. Some men get over their fright in a minute under fire. For some, it takes an hour. For some, it takes days. But a real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood. Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base. <ul><li>General <a href="/wiki/George_S._Patton" title="George S. Patton">George S. Patton</a>, in a speech to the Third Army (5 June 1944); published in <i>The Unknown Patton</i> (1982) by Charles M. Province, p. 32.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>My personal attendant does not think so much of these things as I do. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a>, <i>De Iside</i>, Chapter XXIV. Also in Regnum et Imperatorum. Apothegmata, II. 28. (Tauchnitz Ed.).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="R">R</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heroes&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: R"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Will_Rogers_and_Wiley_Post_cph.3b05600.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Will_Rogers_and_Wiley_Post_cph.3b05600.jpg/220px-Will_Rogers_and_Wiley_Post_cph.3b05600.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="125" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Will_Rogers_and_Wiley_Post_cph.3b05600.jpg/330px-Will_Rogers_and_Wiley_Post_cph.3b05600.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Will_Rogers_and_Wiley_Post_cph.3b05600.jpg/440px-Will_Rogers_and_Wiley_Post_cph.3b05600.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1413" data-file-height="803" /></a><figcaption>Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is. ~ <a href="/wiki/Will_Rogers" title="Will Rogers">Will Rogers</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>There are heroes in evil as well as in good. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld" title="François de La Rochefoucauld">François de La Rochefoucauld</a>, <i>Maxims</i>, No. 194.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Will_Rogers" title="Will Rogers">Will Rogers</a> nationally syndicated column number 114, <i>Monuments Are All Right But Even Heroes Must Eat</i> (1925).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We all can't be heroes, for someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Will_Rogers" title="Will Rogers">Will Rogers</a> as quoted in <i>The Complete Speaker's Index to Selected Stories for Every Occasion</i> (1967) by Jacob Morton Braude, p. 16</li> <li>Variant: We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.</li> <li>As quoted in <i>Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time</i> (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 240</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="S">S</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heroes&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: S"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields,<br />See how these names are fêted in the waving grass<br />And by the streamers of the white cloud<br />And whispers of the wind in the listening sky.<br />The names of those who in their lives fought for life,<br />Who wore at their hearts the fire's centre.<br />Born of the sun, they travelled a short while toward the sun<br />And left the vivid air signed with their honour. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Spender" title="Stephen Spender">Stephen Spender</a>, "I Think of Those Who Were Truly Great"; also in <i>Collected Poems 1928-1953</i> (1955).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Never run against a war hero.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adlai_Stevenson" class="mw-redirect" title="Adlai Stevenson">Adlai Stevenson</a>, who famously campaigned twice for US president against <a href="/wiki/Dwight_Eisenhower" class="mw-redirect" title="Dwight Eisenhower">Dwight Eisenhower</a>, when asked if he had any advice to give to a young politician, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.epochtimes.com/news/4-11-4/24153.html">"History Remembers…Adlai Stevenson" by Maureen Zebian in <i>The Epoch Times</i> (4 November 2004)</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>He who dreamed of <a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">democracy</a>, far back in a world of <a href="/wiki/Absolutism" title="Absolutism">absolutism</a>, was indeed heroic, and we of today awaken to the <a href="/wiki/Wonder" title="Wonder">wonder</a> of his <a href="/wiki/Dream" class="mw-redirect" title="Dream">dream</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Sullivan" title="Louis Sullivan">Louis Sullivan</a>, in "Education" an address to the Architectural League of America, Toronto (1902), later published in <i>Kindergarten Chats (revised 1918) and Other Writings</i> (1947).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="T">T</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heroes&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: T"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Don’t just meet your heroes. Beat your heroes. <ul><li>Doug Tabbutt, <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/12/06/these-guys-finished-record-cannonball-run-new-york-la-averaging-mph-heres-how/">[1]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>[T]he epic poet did not judge heroes by the result... their fate depended on totally external forces... Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb" title="Nassim Nicholas Taleb">Nassim Nicholas Taleb</a>, <i>Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets</i> (2001) Two: A Bizarre Accounting Method | George Will is No Solon: On Counterintuitive Truths</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Could it be … that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not <a href="/wiki/Knowing" class="mw-redirect" title="Knowing">knowing</a> what he may expect from <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/P._L._Travers" title="P. L. Travers">P. L. Travers</a>, in "The World of the Hero" (1976).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I need a hero, I'm holding out for at hero 'till the end of the night<br />He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast<br />And he's gotta be fresh from the fight<br />I need a hero, I'm holding out for a hero 'till the morning light<br />He's gotta be sure and it's gotta be soon<br />And he's gotta be larger than life, larger than life <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Tyler" class="extiw" title="w:Bonnie Tyler">Bonnie Tyler</a>, song "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holding_Out_for_a_Hero" class="extiw" title="w:Holding Out for a Hero">Holding Out for a Hero</a>" (1984).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hoyt's_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations"><span id="Hoyt.27s_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations"></span><i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heroes&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small>Quotes reported in <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hoyt%27s_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations_(1922)" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)">Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</a></i> (1922), p. 365-66.</small></dd></dl> <ul><li>My valet-de-chambre sings me no such song. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Antigonus_I&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Antigonus I (page does not exist)">Antigonus I</a>. See <a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a>, <i>Apothegms</i>. Also Concerning Isis and Osiris, Chapter XXIV.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Tel maître, tel valet.</i> <ul><li>As the master so the valet.<br />Like master, like man.</li> <li>Attributed to <a href="/w/index.php?title=Chevalier_Bayard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chevalier Bayard (page does not exist)">Chevalier Bayard</a> by M. Ciniber.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Ferryman ho! In the night so black<br />Hark to the clank of iron;<br />'Tis heroes of the Yser,<br />'Tis sweethearts of glory.<br />'Tis lads who are unafraid!<br /> Ferryman, ho! <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lucien_Boyer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lucien Boyer (page does not exist)">Lucien Boyer</a>, <i>La Maison du Passeur</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Il faut être bien héros pour l'être aux yeux de son valet-de-chambre.</i> <ul><li>A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marshal_Catinat&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marshal Catinat (page does not exist)">Marshal Catinat</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Il n'y a pas de grand homme pour son valet-de-chambre. <ul><li>No man is a hero to his valet.</li> <li>Mme. de Cornuel. See Mlle. Aissé—Letters. 161. (Paris, 1853).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>But to the hero, when his sword<br /> Has won the battle for the free,<br />Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word,<br />And in its hollow tones are heard<br /> The thanks of millions yet to be. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fitz-Greene_Halleck" title="Fitz-Greene Halleck">Fitz-Greene Halleck</a>, <i>Marco Bozzaris</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The boy stood on the burning deck<br /> Whence all but he had fled;<br />The flame that lit the battle's wreck,<br /> Shone round him o'er the dead.<br />* * * * *<br />The flames roll'd on—he would not go<br /> Without his Father's word;<br />That Father, faint in death below,<br /> His voice no longer heard. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Felicia_Hemans" title="Felicia Hemans">Felicia Hemans</a>, <i>Casabianca</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Hail, Columbia! happy land!<br />Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!<br />Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause. <ul><li>Joseph Hopkinson—Hail, Columbia!</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Kingsley" title="Charles Kingsley">Charles Kingsley</a>, <i>The World's Age</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Rarement ils sont grands vis-à-vis de leur valets-de-chambre. <ul><li>Rarely do they appear great before their valets.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_de_La_Bruy%C3%A8re" title="Jean de La Bruyère">Jean de La Bruyère</a>, <i>Caractères</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>See the conquering hero comes!<br />Sound the trumpets, beat the drums! <ul><li>Dr. Thomas Morell—Words used by Handel in Joshua, and Judas Maccabæus. (Introduced in stage version of Lee's Rival Queens, Act II, scene 1).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Do we weep for the heroes who died for us,<br />Who living were true and tried for us,<br />And dying sleep side by side for us;<br /> The martyr band<br /> That hallowed our land<br />With the blood they shed in a tide for us? <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abram_J._Ryan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Abram J. Ryan (page does not exist)">Abram J. Ryan</a>, <i>C. S. A.</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The last flash … and the hideous attack<br /> Dies like a wisp of storm—discouraged flame;<br />And soon these battered heroes will come back,<br /> The same but yet not the same. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Untermeyer" title="Louis Untermeyer">Louis Untermeyer</a>, <i>Return of the Soldiers</i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dictionary_of_Burning_Words_of_Brilliant_Writers_(1895)"><span id="Dictionary_of_Burning_Words_of_Brilliant_Writers_.281895.29"></span><i>Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers</i> (1895)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heroes&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Daniel%27s_Answer_to_the_King,_by_Briton_Riviere,_GMIII_MCAG_1937_123-001.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Daniel%27s_Answer_to_the_King%2C_by_Briton_Riviere%2C_GMIII_MCAG_1937_123-001.jpg/220px-Daniel%27s_Answer_to_the_King%2C_by_Briton_Riviere%2C_GMIII_MCAG_1937_123-001.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Daniel%27s_Answer_to_the_King%2C_by_Briton_Riviere%2C_GMIII_MCAG_1937_123-001.jpg/330px-Daniel%27s_Answer_to_the_King%2C_by_Briton_Riviere%2C_GMIII_MCAG_1937_123-001.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Daniel%27s_Answer_to_the_King%2C_by_Briton_Riviere%2C_GMIII_MCAG_1937_123-001.jpg/440px-Daniel%27s_Answer_to_the_King%2C_by_Briton_Riviere%2C_GMIII_MCAG_1937_123-001.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="772" /></a><figcaption>The courage of <a href="/wiki/Daniel" class="mw-redirect" title="Daniel">Daniel</a> is true heroism. It is not physical daring, such as beneath some proud impulse will rush upon an enemy's steel; it is not reckless valor, sporting with a life which ill-fortune has blighted or which despair has made intolerable; it is not the passiveness of the stoic, through whose indifferent heart no tides of feeling flow; it is the calm courage which reflects upon its alternatives, and deliberately chooses to do right; it is the determination of Christian principle, whose foot resteth on the rock, and whose eye pierceth into heaven. ~ <a href="/wiki/William_Morley_Punshon" title="William Morley Punshon">William Morley Punshon</a></figcaption></figure> <p><small>Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, <i>Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers</i> (1895)</small> </p> <ul><li>True heroism is alike positive and progressive. It sees in right the duty which should dominate, and in truth the principle which should prevail. And hence it never falters in the faith that always and everywhere sin must be repressed, and righteousness exalted. <ul><li>John McClellan Holmes, p. 312.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Never was there a time, in the history of the world, when moral heroes were more needed. The world waits for such, the providence of God has commanded science to labor and prepare the way for such. For them she is laying her iron tracks, and stretching her wires, and bridging the oceans. But where are they? Who shall breathe into our civil and political relations the breath of a higher life? Who shall touch the eyes of a paganized science, and of a pantheistic philosophy, that they may see God? Who shall consecrate to the glory of God, the triumphs of science? Who shall bear the life-boat to the stranded and perishing nations? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Hopkins_(educator)" title="Mark Hopkins (educator)">Mark Hopkins</a>, p. 312.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The courage of <a href="/wiki/Daniel" class="mw-redirect" title="Daniel">Daniel</a> is true heroism. It is not physical daring, such as beneath some proud impulse will rush upon an enemy's steel; it is not reckless valor, sporting with a life which ill-fortune has blighted or which despair has made intolerable; it is not the passiveness of the stoic, through whose indifferent heart no tides of feeling flow; it is the calm courage which reflects upon its alternatives, and deliberately chooses to do right; it is the determination of Christian principle, whose foot resteth on the rock, and whose eye pierceth into heaven. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Morley_Punshon" title="William Morley Punshon">William Morley Punshon</a>, p. 313.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>With quaint manners and quaint names these men had the hero's heart and the confessor's faith. Their faith was, indeed, their strength. Strong in the supremacy of conscience, in that real earnestness which springs from conviction, and which prompts to enterprise; far-sighted in political sagacity, because seeing Him that is invisible; shrewd enough to know that the truest policy for the life that now is, is a reverent recognition of the life that is to come, they were brave in endurance and patient under trial; and never losing sight of the principle for which they struggled, and of the purpose of their voyage afar, they " won the wilderness for God." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Morley_Punshon" title="William Morley Punshon">William Morley Punshon</a>, p. 313.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Don't aim at any impossible heroisms. Strive rather to be quiet in your own sphere. Don't live in the cloudland of some transcendental heaven; do your best to bring the glory of a real heaven down, and ray it out upon your fellows in this work-day world. Seek to make trade bright with a spotless integrity, and business lustrous with the beauty of holiness. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Morley_Punshon" title="William Morley Punshon">William Morley Punshon</a>, p. 313.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The grandest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Paul" title="Jean Paul">Jean Paul</a>, p. 313.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The calm, tranquil energy of the Redeemer's soul; the deep strength of principle which nothing could shake; the serene courage which looked down upon menaces, clamor, contumely, sacrifice, death, — this is the temper which pours contempt upon the intrepidity of heroes, but which the Holy Spirit infuses into the humble Christian. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Fuller" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Fuller">Richard Fuller</a>, p. 314.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heroes&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Courage" title="Courage">Courage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Villains" class="mw-redirect" title="Villains">Villains</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heroes&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="noprint" style="clear: right; 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