Heroes & Courage

• Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The hero is strangely akin to those who die young. — Rainer Maria Rilke
• O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west. — Sir Walter Scott
• This was the noblest Roman of them all. — Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar." [The reference is to Brutus.]
• Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. — Vittorio Alfieri
• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. — Mark Twain
• Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. — G.K. Chesterton
• One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a human. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. — John Barth