Joseph Addison Quotes

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

You can see how he changed on the surface. But at the core of it all, I think Superman has remained the same - a character with incredible powers but almost superhuman humility and restraint.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

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

It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

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

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

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

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Great people have great values and great ethics.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

My heroes are just everyday people who work hard, are honest and have integrity.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.

I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

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.