George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.

Of course, Nelson Mandela, everybody knows Nelson Mandela. I mean, he's a great gift not only for Africa but for the whole world, actually. But do not expect everybody to be a Nelson Mandela.

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

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

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.

Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . . Worship of a Hero is transcendent admiration of a Great Man. I say great men are still admirable; I say there is, at bottom, nothing else admirable! No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of men.

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.

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

There have been heroes for whom this world seemed expressly prepared, as if creation had at last succeeded; whose daily life was the stuff of which our dreams are made, and whose presence enhanced the beauty and ampleness of Nature herself.

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.

Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve---a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind.

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?

Heroes come along when you need them.

A nation without heroes is nothing.

For me it is a matter of pride that I have been born in the age in the which Tendulkar is playing

Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

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.

Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.