Without heroes, we're all plain people and don't know how far we can go.--Bernard Malamud
The cowards think of what they can lose, the heroes of what they can win.--J. M. Charlier
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.--Benjamin Disraeli
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
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that needs no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human al all … why then, perhaps we must stand fast a little--even at the risk of being heroes.--Robert Bolt
