Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. (Quote by - Elbert Green Hubbard)

Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among Mankind. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

Grace is given to heal the spiritually sick, not to decorate spiritual heroes (Quote by - Martin Luther)

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart. (Quote by - Proverb)

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. (Quote by - Joseph Campbell)

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)

If one is determined to die for the truth, even a common man can create history. (Quote by - Vellupillai Pirapakaran)

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself. (Quote by - Simone Weil)

Ferryman ho! In the night so black Hark to the clank of iron; 'Tis heroes of the Yser, 'Tis sweethearts of glory, 'Tis lads who are unafraid! Ferryman ho! (Quote by - Lucien Boyer)

It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth. (Quote by - Will Rogers)

As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)

A hero is a man who is afraid to run away. (Quote by - English Proverb)

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. (Quote by - Christopher Reeve)

Who is a hero? He who conquers his urges (Quote by - The Talmud)

Don't be so humble. You're not that great. (Quote by - Golda Meir)

Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand. (Quote by - Charles Kingsley)

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. (Quote by - Felix Adler)

The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. . . . . The flames roll'd on--he would not go Without his Father's word; That father, faint in death below, His voice no longer heard. (Quote by - Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans)

I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)

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. (Quote by - Jim Morrison)

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world. (Quote by - Rebecca Harding Davis)

An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness much as plums have to be put into a bad pudding to make it palatable. (Quote by - E. M. Forster)

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning. (Quote by - Indira Gandhi)