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Quotes about heroes and heroism
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It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals. (Attenborough Richard)
The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors. (Attenborough Richard)
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one. (Attenborough Richard)
We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too. (Attenborough Richard)
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No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet. (Attenborough Richard)
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions. (Attenborough Richard)
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes --ah, they have all the necessary leisure. (Attenborough Richard)
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. (Attenborough Richard)
Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials. (Attenborough Richard)
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. (Attenborough Richard)
A hero is someone we can admire without apology. (Attenborough Richard)
There are heroes in evil as well as in good. (Attenborough Richard)
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. (Attenborough Richard)
The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers. (Attenborough Richard)
All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else. (Attenborough Richard)
What is a hero without love for mankind. (Attenborough Richard)
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? (Attenborough Richard)
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation. (Attenborough Richard)
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. (Attenborough Richard)
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. (Attenborough Richard)
Calculation never made a hero. (Attenborough Richard)
No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one. (Attenborough Richard)
One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero. (Attenborough Richard)
A hero is a man who is afraid to run away. (Attenborough Richard)
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost. (Attenborough Richard)
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