Hero Quotes - Page 20

• Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking.

  Mason Cooley

  Fighting, Ironic, Boast

  4 Copy quote

• The hero used to be the one in white. Now he is harder to spot.

  Mason Cooley

  White, Used, Spots

  4 Copy quote

• Heroes are born to be troublemakers.

  Mason Cooley

  Born, Heroines, Troublemaker

  10 Copy quote

• The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.

  Mason Cooley

  Winning, Play, Comedian

  7 Copy quote

• I don't know what Joe (DiMaggio)
  wanted (in regards to being called 'the greatest living ballplayer'), but I don't have a problem, if he wanted to do that. He was my hero. Joe
  was the best all-around player. Joe
  was the best. I only played against him once, in the '51 Series.

  Willie Mays

  Player, Problem, Wanted

  18 Copy quote

• I had some great role models along the way. My on-field heroes were the great Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, and Willie Mays. I wanted to be like them on the field, and I am so damn proud to join them in the Hall of Fame.

  Allan Ray

  Role Models, Roles, Proud

  4 Copy quote

• I kind of weirdly fell into being an action hero...I have no f- idea how that happened. You have to remind people that you want to act rather than just run around

  Kit Harington

  Running, Ideas, People

  4 Copy quote

• My social status in the last year has gone from zero to hero.

  Nell Zink

  Zero, Years, Gone

  "Why Cultural Significance Is The Best Job I Ever Had" by Nell Zink, www.buzzfeed.com. June 6, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every time you are willing to say “Yes” to everything on your path, you express the hero inside of you.

  Maria Nemeth

  Path, Willing

  Maria Nemeth, Ph.d. (2010). “The Energy of Money: A Spiritual Guide to Financial and Personal Fulfillment”, p.288, Wellspring/Ballantine

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind.

  Dan Rosensweig

  Successful, Guitar, People

  4 Copy quote

• The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of the globe reach even to us here, as to more distant dwellers on its banks;many a poet's stream, floating the helms and shields of heroes on its bosom.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Rivers, Floating

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.17, Courier Corporation

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Fighting, Boys

  16 Copy quote

• "The myths," says Horace in his Ars Poetica, "have been invented by wise men to strengthen the laws and teach moral truths." While Horace endeavored to make clear the very spirit and essence of the ancient myths, Euhemerus pretended, on the contrary, that "myths were the legendary history of kings and heroes, transformed into gods by the admiration of the nations." It is the latter method which was inferentially followed by Christians when they agreed upon the acceptation of euhemerized patriarchs, and mistook them for men who had really lived.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Christian, Wise, Kings

  "Isis Unveiled". Book by Helena Blavatsky. Volume II, Chapter IX, 1877.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical. Canonise 'business success,' and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!

  Ida Tarbell

  Depressing, Business, Men

  Ida M. Tarbell (2012). “The History of the Standard Oil Company: Briefer Version”, p.224, Courier Corporation

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• He (Roberto Clemente) is a hero to me.

  Sammy Sosa

  4 Copy quote

• Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States--first,murder stories; secondly, novels in which the heroine is forcibly overcome by the hero; thirdly, volumes on spiritualism, occultism and other such claptrap, and fourthly, books on Lincoln.

  H. L. Mencken

  Book, Four, Firsts

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.221, Vintage

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Winning, Battle, Principles

  12 Copy quote

• Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Virtue, Fame, Fortune

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.545

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Soul, Coward

  10 Copy quote

• I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the fine gentleman or hero. Thus it is in the farce of life. Wise men spend their time in mirth; it is only fools who are serious.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Wise, Men, Play

  4 Copy quote

• Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul, which raises it above the troubles, disorders and emotions which the sight of great perils can arouse in it; by this strength heroes maintain a calm aspect and preserve their reason and liberty in the most surprising and terrible accidents.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Sight, Bravery, Soul

  5 Copy quote

• We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Prejudice, Madmen

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.76, Wildside Press LLC

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first animate exertion, if dwelt upon too intently, will usurp the place of the stern reality; and, noble objects will be contemplated, not for their own inherent worth, but on account of the day-dreams they engender. Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Dream, Hope, Reality

  7 Copy quote

• We may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of the knight-errant in him; Sir George Etherege was unconsciously the Fopling Flutter of his own satire; Goldsmith was the same hero to chambermaids, and coward to ladies that he has immortalized in his charming comedy; and the antiquarian frivolities of Jonathan Oldbuck had their resemblance in Jonathan Oldbuck's creator.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Humorous, Knights, Coward

  4 Copy quote

• The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Heart, Criminals, Different

  8 Copy quote