Heroes

Nurture your minds with great thoughts, to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
- Benjamin Disraeli, 1804 - 1881

Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows. Of these obscure heroes, philosophers, and martyrs the greater part will never be known.
- Charles Reade

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

All great stories have three acts. In the first act, the heroes are introduced to great fanfare. In the second, the heroes, on the verge of victory, stumble and take a fall. And in the third act, the heroes return, victorious, to win the battle.
- Ted Leonsis

That which we are, we are.
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
made weak by time and fate.
But strong in will,to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yeild.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses