Hero Quotes - Page 21

• In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.

  D. H. Lawrence

  God, Character, Flames

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.182, Cambridge University Press

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• The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.

  W. H. Auden

  Law, Suffering, Kind

  "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("The Greeks and Us"), (p. 21), 1973.

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• Whoever, with an earnest soul,
  Strives for some end from this low world afar,
  Still upward travels though he miss the goal,
  And strays--but towards a star.

  Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

  Stars, Goal, Missing

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• When it comes to fund managers and market strategists, this year's hero usually turns into next year's zero.

  William J. Bernstein

  Zero, Years, Next Year

  William J. Bernstein (2009). “The Investor's Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between”, John Wiley & Sons

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• There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual; between the State which demands and the individual who attempts to evade such demands. Because the individual, left to himself, unless he be a saint or hero, always refuses to pay taxes, obey laws, or go to war.

  Benito Mussolini

  War, Struggle, Law

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• In my later years I have sought to become simpler, straighter and purer in my handling of the language. I've had many writing heroes, writers who have influenced me. Of the ones still alive, I can think of E.B. White. I certainly admire the pure, crystal stream of his prose. When I was very young as a sportswriter I knowingly and unashamedly imitated others. I had a series of heroes who would delight me for a while and I'd imitate them--Damon Runyon, Westbrook Pegler, Joe Williams.

  Red Smith

  Sports, Writing, Thinking

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• Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes and its martyrs in almost every age. As I look back through the vista of centuries, I can see no end of the ranks of those who have toiled and suffered in its cause, and who wear upon their breasts its stars of the legion of honor.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Stars, Honor, Age

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• Our heroes of the former days deserved and gained their never-fading bays.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Fading, Former

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• Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?

  Nikolai Gogol

  Chairs, Courses

  "The Inspector General". Play by Nikolai Gogol, 1836.

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• We are independent of the change we detect. The longer the lever, the less perceptible its motion. It is the slowest pulsation which is the most vital. The hero then will know how to wait, as well as to make haste. All good abides with him who waiteth wisely; we shall sooner overtake the dawn by remaining here than by hurrying over the hills of the west.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Patience, Independent

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.532, Simon and Schuster

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• I dreamed horse and lived horse and expected, if necessary, to marry a horse; for all practical purposes I was a horse.

  James Tiptree Jr.

  Horse, Purpose, Practicals

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• That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion, and teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Soul, Steps

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2907, Delphi Classics

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• The moral equalizes all; enriches, empowers all. It is the coin which buys all, and which all find in their pocket. Under the whipof the driver, the slave shall feel his equality with saints and heroes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Empowering, Pockets, Saint

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.250, University of Georgia Press

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• Those who share my heroes are, in the deepest sense, of my own kind.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Kind, Share, My Own

  Rebecca Goldstein (1993). “The Mind-Body Problem”, Penguin Group USA

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• Everyone loves a hero. What we differ on is the question of who the heroes are, because we differ over what matters. And who matters is a function of what matters. [If] what matters is intelligence, the people who matter are the intelligent, and the people who matter the most, the heroes, are the geniuses.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Intelligent, What Matters, People

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• If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the black man must serve,and be exterminated. But if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him: he will survive and play his part. So now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint, and the Haytian heroes, or of the leaders of their race in Barbadoes and Jamaica, outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hurt, Men, Race

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.774, Modern Library

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• There is no king or sovereign state
  That can fix a hero's rate;
  Each to all is venerable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Sovereign, States

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.110, Delphi Classics

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• How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Book, Yield

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.74

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• The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Events, Heroines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.209

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• The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Balance, Alarms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.374, Library of America

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• Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Shining, Elements

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.353, Рипол Классик

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• But whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trying, Crisis, Edges

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.353, Рипол Классик

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• Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.

  James A. Garfield

  Liberty, Heroism

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• Donald Trump got in some trouble for saying that John McCain is not a war hero, and said, 'I like people that weren't captured.' Not good. In fact, Trump's people are telling him to lay low for a while until this all combs over.

  Jimmy Fallon

  War, People, Facts

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. July 21, 2015.

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• The story of Sherlock Holmes, on the surface, is about detection, but in reality, it's about the best of two men who save each other - a lost, washed-up war hero and a man who could end up committing murders instead of solving them. They come together. They become this perfect unit. They become the best friendship ever, and they become heroes. That's what we fall in love with, not Sherlock on his own. No one can love that man on his own, but Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson - the best friends ever.

  Steven Moffat

  Falling In Love, War, Reality

  "PBS restarts beloved franchise with 'Sherlock'" by Dave Walker, www.nola.com. October 24, 2010.

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