Joseph Chamberlain Quotes

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

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

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

Tomorrow let us do or die!

The true legacy of 9-11 cannot be found among political leaders of the day, but in the citizen soldiers and public safety personnel who answered that day with courage and selflessness.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

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

I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.