Ronald Steel Quotes

The greatest gift the hero leaves his race, is to have been a hero.

Heroes are not always available.

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

A modern hero should … think as well as act and should inspire Americans with a forward-looking set of values.

John Paul Jones was probably clinically committable, but that doesn’t take anything away fro him as a hero.

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

Disobedience is the stamp of the hero.

No doubt Jean Bart does not talk like you, but who of you could act like Jean Bart?

Let the world admire the supposed wisdom and valor of our great men, Perhaps they may adopt the qualities that have been ascribed to them, and thus good may be done.

In the heat of battle, heroes emerge, sometimes from the most unlikely of sources.

The history of struggle is rich with stories of heroes and heroines - some of them leaders, some of them followers, all of them deserve to be remembered.

My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the liberty of hand and brain... to all the wise, the good, the brave of every land, whose thoughts and deeds have given freedom to the sons of men. And then I vowed to grasp the torch that they had held, and hold it high, that light might conquer darkness still.

A nation without heroes is nothing.

I'm just a kid, Chiron," I said miserably. "What good is one lousy hero against something like Kronos?" Chiron managed a smile. '"What good is one lousy hero'? Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain said something like that to me once, just before he single-handedly changed the course of your Civil War.

The gods need heroes. They always have.

Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look.

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.

There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me.

The hero is 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.

I think what we're lacking in society, not only in the U.S. but also around the world, is to find heroes once again and to celebrate these kind of people.

Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat.