“If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.”
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American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes
“Wars do not make heroes of everyone.”
Source: Briar Rose (1992), Chapter 25 (p. 146)
“There is enough wealth in the world to satisfy everyone's needs, …”
This quote is actually credited to an American pastor of Swiss origin Frank Buchman, founder of the Moral Rearmament movement. Misquotes that Bapu is forced to wear http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-10-03/ahmedabad/30238203_1_bapu-tushar-gandhi-gandhiji.
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“Your son learns the “hero paradox”: to value himself by not valuing himself.”
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 65
“Why did he get himself killed for us?" "Because he was a hero. And that is what heroes do.”
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 20
Context: "We irritated him, he told me. Why did he get himself killed for us?" "Because he was a hero. And that is what heroes do. You understand?"
“The hero withdrew and betook himself for a space to his companions, waiting.”
Cessit et ad socios paulum se rettulit heros
opperiens.
Source: Argonautica, Book VII, Lines 614–615
“Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.” Tell this to everyone—“Have no fear.””
Pearls of Wisdom
Source: Horns
