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“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the
urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at
whatever cost." — American professional tennis player, author, activist—and
yes, true hero—Arthur Ashe (1943-1993), quoted in Bob Kelly, Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes (2003)
“Adhere
to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange
and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.” — Ralph Waldo
Emerson, “Heroism,” in Essays: First Series (1841)
"All the heroes are dead. And the real heroes
are the parents. Dying is a very simple thing. I’ve looked at death and really
I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the
easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer
a thousand times more."—Ernest Hemingway, letter of October 18, 1918, to
his family, written while recovering from wound incurred while serving as an
ambulance driver in Italy in WWI, in The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, 1907-1922,
edited by Sandra Spanier and Robert W. Trogdon (2011)
“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the
urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at
whatever cost." — American professional tennis player, author, activist—and
yes, true hero—Arthur Ashe (1943-1993), quoted in Bob Kelly, Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes (2003)
