Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.

Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.

Better an unsung hero than a fallen star.

Heroism ... is endurance for one moment more.

The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security and stake their own lives in order to do what they themselves think worth doing.