Popular Quotes

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martyrdom - the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

- George Bernard Shaw

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

- Bishop Hugh Latimer

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

- Will Rogers

Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials . . . such as the apple that William Tell never shot, the ride that Paul Revere never finished, the flag that Barbara Frietchie never waved.

- Gerald Johnson

A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.

- Sigmund Freud

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

- Heinrich Heine

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the forms of psychological heroism is the willingness to tolerate anxiety and uncertainty in the pursuit of our values - whether these values be work goals, the love of another human being, the raising of a family or personal growth.

- Samuel Branden

Don't be so humble. You're not that great.

- Golda Meir

Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.

- Randall Jarrell

All these were honoured in their generations and were the glory of their times.

- Bible

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

- Will Rogers

One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.

- Bishop Beilby Porteus

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.

- George Bernard Shaw

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.

- E. M. Forster

In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.

- R. D. Hitchcock

It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.

- Goethe