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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.

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R. D. Hitchcock

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

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

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

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Bishop Beilby Porteus

One murder makes a villain millions a hero.

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George Bernard Shaw

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

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Bishop Hugh Latimer

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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

heroes, heroism