Elbert Hubbard Quotes

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

You're never going to catch me calling myself a hero unless I'm joking.

If someone comes to me with a script and says, 'Sir, this hero...' I'm like, 'Is there a name, or he is just called a hero?' We are not heroes. Heroes are people fighting for us at the border. We are not heroes; we are just doing our job.

I like to say I'm not a hero.

I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.

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

I wasn't heroic because I was never in danger.

Heroism is a matter of choice.

I don't feel like I'm a hero.

Heroism does not require spiritual maturity.

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

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

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

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

I am not a hero.

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

Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

If I were the blushing kind, I would blush to be called a hero.

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

He will have true glory who despises it.

I don't have an ego that makes me believe the world revolves around me. I am not self-absorbed.

People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.