Hero Quotes

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

Unhappy the land where heroes are needed.[Unglücklich das Land, das Helden nötig hat.]

There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never recriminate.

The young hero never tells his plans. They mature in the dark.

The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice…

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule; better still, to know how to make oneself ridiculous and not to shrink from the ridicule.[El más alto heroísmo para un individuo, como para un pueblo, es saber afrontar el ridículo; es, mejor aún, saber ponerse en ridículo y no acobardarse en él.]

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.[Im Staat kann es keine Heroen mehr geben: diese kommen nur im ungebildeten Zustande vor.]

It’s chance and nuances that separate the hero from the villain. That’s how it’s always been. Righteousness is the virtue of the lazy and the visionless. Without lawbreakers and disobedience we would still be living in a feudal society.

In the face of pain there are no heroes.

I hate to read about low-class heroes and their down-to-earth concerns, the sort of thing the real world’s full of.[Je déteste les héros communs et les sentiments tempérés, comme il y en a dans la nature.]

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so.