Quotes for: hero

Quotes for: hero

One can be a hero without ravaging the earth.
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

One can be a hero without ravaging the earth.

Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli

Whatever great advantages nature may give, it is not she alone, but fortune also that makes the hero.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

The countenance of bravery has a share in the victory.
Publilius Syrus - Sentences

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When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
Plato ? - Quotation of uncertain origin

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