We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up ... discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, You Learn by Living
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
JEAN GENET, Prisoner of Love
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, The Blithedale Romance
Heroism is endurance for one moment more.
GEORGE KENNAN, "The Problems of Suicide," McClure's Magazine, 1908
Unhappy the land that needs heroes.
BERTOLT, BRECHT, Life of Galileo
In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.
- The hero is not fed on sweets,
- Daily his own heart he eats.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Heroism
Heroes don't get anything but dead.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, The Lunatic Cafe
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