Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

All actual heroes are essential men, / And all men possible heroes...

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.