Unrecognized Heroes Quotes

Success cannot be advertised: failure cannot be explained. In the work of intelligence, heroes are undecorated and unsung, often even among their own fraternity.

We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.

But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group.

Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held.

The discovery of heroes is rarely linear or obvious. They usually sneak up on you.

I'm really inspired by stories I didn't know about.

The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.

Nobody gives a damn about the Merrimac. You know how it is. Winners write the history books.

We have won laurels for the country in wrestling but still, in spite of winning medals, not many people recognised us.