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Quotes about heroes and heroism
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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. (Attenborough Richard)
You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us. (Attenborough Richard)
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. (Attenborough Richard)
What is a society without a heroic dimension? (Attenborough Richard)
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True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat. (Attenborough Richard)
In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs. (Attenborough Richard)
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. (Attenborough Richard)
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. (Attenborough Richard)
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. (Attenborough Richard)
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. (Attenborough Richard)
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour. (Attenborough Richard)
The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet. (Attenborough Richard)
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. (Attenborough Richard)
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion. (Attenborough Richard)
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. (Attenborough Richard)
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were. (Attenborough Richard)
Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life. (Attenborough Richard)
Every hero becomes a bore at last. (Attenborough Richard)
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic. (Attenborough Richard)
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. (Attenborough Richard)
Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right. (Attenborough Richard)
Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle. (Attenborough Richard)
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me. (Attenborough Richard)
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them. (Attenborough Richard)
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in. (Attenborough Richard)
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