Hero Quotes - page 73

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them. View quote
Bono
American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important. View quote
Marcus Buckingham
Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes. View quote
Plato
Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers. View quote
Billy Childish
Wars, conflict, it's all business. "One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero." View quote
Charlie Chaplin
I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand. View quote
Steven Spielberg
For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. View quote
Steven Spielberg
The new world has never achieved a greater triumph than by this demonstration that, given its political and social organisation, ordinary people of good will can accomplish feats which only heroes could accomplish in the old world! View quote
Karl Marx
Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose. View quote
Yukihiro Matsumoto
The Individual living in this unity has a moral "life; possesses a value that consists in this substantiality alone. Sophocles in his Antigone, says, "The divine commands are not of yesterday, nor of to-day; no, they have an infinite existence, and no one could say whence they came." The laws of morality are not accidental, but are the essentially Rational. It is the very object of the State that what is essential in the practical activity of men, and in their dispositions, should be duly recognized; that it should have a manifest existence, and maintain its position. It is the absolute interest of Reason that this moral Whole should exist; and herein lies the justification and merit of heroes who have founded states, however rude these may have been. In the history of the World, only those peoples can come under our notice which form a state. For it must be understood that this latter is the realization of Freedom, i.e. of the absolute final aim, and that it exists for its own sake. (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)
The consciousness of this extraordinary state of affairs would be unbearable but for one great consoling thought: it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose ambitions lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere. This proves that knowledge and justice are ranked above wealth and power by a large section of the human race. View quote
Albert Einstein
The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler. View quote
Albert Einstein
A hero looks death in the face, real death, not just the image of death. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero. View quote
Josh Billings
I never expected to play lead roles! Primarily, because I was not the conventional good looking hero, and in fact, I used to feel I'll never look as good as Rajesh Khanna. Why the hell am I going into it? Now that we are being frank and talking our hearts out, I'd like to say that I still remember a photograph of Kaka's which came in Filmfare and I thought ‘yaar, ye aadmi kya khaata hain? Iske gaal itne lal kaise hain? View quote
Amitabh Bachchan
In a country which lacks so many things, people want to look up to an idol. They want to feel this is their hero. In exactly the same way, as they would want a whipping horse, to put all the blame. View quote
Amitabh Bachchan
To be a hero is to be emotionally constipated. View quote
Warren Farrell
The traditional male hero is about self-sacrifice, not self-actualization. View quote
Warren Farrell
Many of the qualities your son develops to kill in war-or be a hero at work-undermine the qualities it takes to love at home. View quote
Warren Farrell
Your son learns the "hero paradox”: to value himself by not valuing himself. (Warren Farrell)
The word hero derives from the root *ser-, from which we also get the word "servant.”. View quote
Warren Farrell
Your son's heroes didn't climb traditional ladders-they built their own. View quote
Warren Farrell
To win wars, we had to train our sons to be disposable. We honored boys if they died so we could live. We called them heroes. View quote
Warren Farrell
What we are most anxious about is our anxiety itself: the greatest of all sins, Auden learns from Kafka, is impatience - and he decides that the hero "is, in fact, one who is not anxious.”. View quote
Randall Jarrell