Hero Quotes - page 72

Life is a play acted by dying men, Where, if its heroes seem to foot it well And go light-tongued without grimace of pain, Death will be found anon. And who shall tell Which part was saddest, or in youth or age, When the tired actor stops and leaves the stage? (Wilfrid Scawen Blunt)
Here is another example of violating one's nature in the name of nobility, an example that shows the larger dangers of false love. Years ago, I heard Dorothy Day speak. Founder of the Catholic Worker movement, her long-term commitment to living among the poor on New York's Lower East Side-not just serving them but sharing their condition-had made her one of my heroes. So it came as a great shock. when in the middle of her talk, I heard her start to ruminate about the "ungrateful poor." I did not understand how such a dismissive phrase could come from the lips of a saint-until it hit me with the force of a Zen koan. Dorothy Day was saying, "Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need; it will only impoverish them further. Give only if you have something you must give; give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward." View quote
Parker Palmer
To get an idea of the sacrifices entailed, listen to the words of the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, "If aiding the lepers is so dear to the Missionaries, particularly the Catholic Missionaries, it is because there is no other service, which requires a greater spirit of sacrifice. Working in a leper asylum demands the highest ideals and the most perfect abnegation. The world of politics and journalism can point to few heroes who compare with Father Damien of Molokai. The Catholic Church on the other hand, counts by the thousand, those who after the example of Father Damien have vowed themselves to the service of the lepers. It is worth inquiring into such heroism!" View quote
Peter de Noronha
I agree with Freydis that, for various reasons, nobody ever, quite, knew Manuel well. The hero of "The Silver Stallion" is, thus, no person, but an idea. View quote
James Branch Cabell
He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished; he died. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just love her. View quote
Cheech Marin
Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated. View quote
Peter Capaldi
It's a legitimate point to debate. But it's part of the reality. It's happening, but it's also true they (looters) are in the distinct minority. I think there's a hero on every street corner in New Orleans, and I think the reporting has shown that. I think the balance has been there. View quote
Dan Rather
Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? View quote
Miep Gies
Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong. View quote
Dan Brown
The vastest point, the center, the infinity - Faëry, where the gigantic heroes ride across endless landscapes and sail sea upon sea and there is no end to possibility - that circle is so tiny it has no doors at all. (John Crowley)
Hero tales suggest the price of courage is beyond the ordinary budget. They tempt us to disown the common capacity of the human spirit to transcend normality. View quote
Sam Keen
I want to live life to the ultimate high, Maybe I'll die young like heroes die, Maybe I'll kiss you some wild special way. If nobody kills me or thrills me soon, I'll die in your arms under the cherry moon. View quote
Prince (musician)
Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists. View quote
Alfred Rosenberg
The wall belongs to history. But we have history to make as well. And the heroes that came before us now call to us to live up to those highest ideals. View quote
Barack Obama
No praise could be sufficient for those courageous musicians whom we left behind. They were heroes to a man. View quote
Steve Turner
I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me. View quote
Kirsten Dunst
He who fears and doubts cannot make any progress either in the spiritual or worldly sphere. The mind is cramped. He alone is a hero, he alone attains greatness, who moves forward to realise the truth without caring whether the world is real or not. View quote
Swami Adbhutananda
If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one. View quote
Jean Paul
...the turns of the screw that Sophocles administered throughout the play [Oedipus Tyrannos] must have been received with sharp pain... because these cocky, princely, Oedipal Greeks were being made to feel acutely the limitations of human society-in which no political leader, no matter how gifted or courageous, can remain a savior forever, in which every man must come to know that he is no hero but essentially a flawed and luckless figure and that "the pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most of all." (Thomas Cahill)
Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test. View quote
Wilfrid Sheed
The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero. View quote
Carlos Santana
I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way. View quote
Ian Fleming
My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers. View quote
James D. Watson