Simone Weil Quotes

Heroes are not always available.

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

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Anyone can be a hero. You just have to have faith in yourself.

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

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

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

Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

Courage is the most important of the virtues because it is the one that makes all the others possible.

The greatest man is he who chooses the Right with invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptations from within and without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in storms and most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.

I feel that Sarkar is a realistic superman in his life.

Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of the ones you love, people aren't so willing to make those sacrifices. When they do, they are set apart from the rest of us.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

In great deeds something abides.

I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.