Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.
Margaret Mitchell

First, how to memorialize the heroes of 9/11; second, something that expresses our resolve.
George Pataki

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced.
Jim Walsh

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.
James T. Walsh

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

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.
Brooke Foss Westcott

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed.
Bob Riley

Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life.
Judd Nelson

Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all.
Gerald W. Johnson

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

Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.
Mickey Mantle

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.
Philip Zimbardo

Heroes can be sweet.
Oriana Fallaci

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.
Ronald Reagan

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.
William Hurt

Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.
John Osborne

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Maya Angelou

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
Jean Jacques Rousseau

I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.
Frank Shorter

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.
Jeffery Deaver