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9 Matches Found.
- Lise Hand, describing Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, who was killed as a result of her investigations of Irish organized crime.
That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end.
- Roman Rollard
A hero is a man who does what he can.
- Sir Thomas Brown (1830-79) English Physician and Writer
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage to the sun.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American Poet and Essayist
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.
- Felix Adler
The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.
- From the song
To dream the impossible dream,
To fight the unbeatable foe,
To bear with unbearable sorrow,
To run where the brave dare not go.
To right the unrightable wrong,
To love pure and chaste from afar,
To try when your arms are too weary,
To reach the unreachable star!
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) British Prime Minister
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
- Kip Keino (1940-) Kenyan Olympic Gold Medallist in Track
This life we have is short, so let us leave a mark for people to remember - explaining why he adopted and educated 69 orphan children.
- Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French Writer
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
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