Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.
C. S. LewisCowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once.
William ShakespeareHeroism on command, senseless violence and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert EinsteinTeach you children poetry, it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Walter ScottThe world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Helen KellerHeroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage, the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Jean-Jacques RousseauI answer the heroic question "Death where is they sting?" with "It is here in my heart and mind and memories."
Maya AngelouI've spent several years in Hollywood and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
Wilson MiznerThere is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
John Keats