The characteristic of genuine heroism is 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 try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common nor the common heroic.
No one knows where he who invented the plow was born nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought.
The effective impact upon us of men of honor rectitude and goodwill is to arouse kindred impulses within us. We begin to detect in ourselves undeveloped capacities. The touch of the heroic awakens in us the slumbering hero. Fellowship with a true servant of mankind calls into action our latent impulses to minister.
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove ones 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.
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
If I can line up the people who back through the ages have gone at life in ways I greatly admire then I can feel all their strength supporting me all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Nature abhors a hero….how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to get creamed?
The characteristic of genuine heroism is 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 try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common nor the common heroic.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
In the worlds broad field of battle In the bivouac of Life Be not like dumb driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife.
No one knows where he who invented the plow was born nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought.
The effective impact upon us of men of honor rectitude and goodwill is to arouse kindred impulses within us. We begin to detect in ourselves undeveloped capacities. The touch of the heroic awakens in us the slumbering hero. Fellowship with a true servant of mankind calls into action our latent impulses to minister.
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove ones 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.
As you get older it is harder to have heroes.
Heroes are created by popular demand sometimes out of the scantiest materials or none at all.
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
Asked how he became a Navy hero It was involuntary. They sank my boat.
We all live in suspense from day to day from hour to hour; in other words we are the hero of our own story.
If I can line up the people who back through the ages have gone at life in ways I greatly admire then I can feel all their strength supporting me all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Kill reverence and youve killed the hero in man.
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
A hero is one who does what he can. The others dont.
Nature abhors a hero….how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to get creamed?
The man who is dissatisfied with himself what can he do?
The ability to accept victory graciously and take defeat without bitterness is what makes heroes.
Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer.