Arthur Ashe Quote on Heroism

“We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for; I don’t know.” – W. H. Auden

“Even if I knew the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree today.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die. For the harder I work, the more I live.” – George Bernard Shaw

“The really great man is the man who makes every man feel great.” – G. K. Chesterton

“True heroism…is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” – Arthur Ashe

“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.” – Anonymous

“How you do what you do is who you are” – Joe Bill

“The Pope and a peasant know more than the Pope alone.” – Anonymous

“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed.” – Mark Twain