MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)

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

One of the forms of psychological heroism is the willingness to tolerate anxiety and uncertainty in the pursuit of our values whether these values be work goals, the love of another human being, the raising of a family or personal growth. (Quote by - Samuel Branden)

Rarely do they appear great before their valets. (Quote by - Jean de la Bruyere)

To a valet no man is a hero. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

Martyrdom the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die. (Quote by - Will Rogers)

A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood. (Quote by - Irish Proverb)

The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)

Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause. (Quote by - Joseph Hopkinson)

Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall. (Quote by - Homer)

Every hero becomes a bore at last. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

He's of stature somewhat low-- Your hero always should be tall, you know. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by. (Quote by - Will Rogers)

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Self-trust is the essence of heroism. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race. (Quote by - Stanley Kunitz)

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value. (Quote by - Mme. A.M. Bigot de Cornuel)

Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to sing their praises. (Quote by - Horace)

As the master so the valet. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward. (Quote by - Dolores Ibarruri)