Heroes Quotes
Emerson and Carlyle, who both wrote on the hero, lead the page, followed by Warren Farrell, Gordon Lightfoot and Robert Jordan. The best-known sourced line is Brecht’s, from Life of Galileo (1939): Andrea says, “Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero,” and Galileo answers, “Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.” Nassim Taleb, in Fooled by Randomness (2001), says heroes are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost. Jean Paul wrote that the grandest heroic deeds are done within four walls.
“What is a hero without love for mankind?” is credited to Doris Lessing and flagged misattributed. The notes give the real source: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Philotas (1759). The cockroach-and-butterfly line credited to Nietzsche is also misattributed.
The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.
If the hero join combat with night and conquer it, may shreds of it remain upon him!
The hero of "The Silver Stallion" is … no person, but an idea.
Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero.
If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.
Hail hero, hail hero, child of the sun
All covered with flowers still having your fun
I think a hero is really any person intent on making this a better place for all people.
Done to death by slanderous tongues,
Was the Hero that here lies.