Hero Quotes - Page 22

• Most of the heroes of Scripture rose to their greatest victories after their worst mistakes. God is in the redemption business, and He testifies of this through the lives of everyone He calls.

  Rick Joyner

  Mistake, Greatest Victory, Rose

  FaceBook post by Rick Joyner from Jun 18, 2015

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• I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)

  Ronald Reagan

  Records, Betrayed, Fine

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• Every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching
  men fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.

  George S. Patton

  Real, Liars, Fighting

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• Of two heroes, he who esteems his rivals the most is the greatest.

  Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle

  Two, Rivals, Esteem

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• Heroism is about taking an action which represents a breakthrough, and then assuming full responsiblity for it, even if it's a failure.

  Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

  Action, Assuming, Breakthrough

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• A dead martyr is just another corpse.

  Leo Gordon

  Idealism, Martyr, Corpses

  "Fictional character: Major Craig". "Tobruk", www.imdb.com. 1967.

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• The difference between the hero and the coward is that the hero sticks in there five minutes longer

  Brian Tracy

  Differences, Coward, Sticks

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• The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that hein some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Greek, May

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• On the whole, my respect for my fellow-men, except as one may outweigh a million, is not being increased these days.... Such do not know that like the seed is the fruit, and that, in the moral world, when good seed is planted, good fruit is inevitable, and does not depend on our watering and cultivating; that when you plant, or bury, a hero in his field, a crop of heroes is sure to spring up. This is a seed of such force and vitality, that it does not ask our leave to germinate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Men, Vitality

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• Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Presence Of Mind, People, Bravery

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• There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wickedness, Goodness, Badness

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• So when I open the door on Halloween, I am confronted by three or four imaginary heroes, such as G.I. Joe, Conan the Barbarian and Oliver North, who would look very terrifying except that they are three feet tall and facing in random directions. They stand there silently for several seconds before an adult voice hisses from the darkness behind them: "Say 'Trick or treat!

  Dave Barry

  Halloween, Doors, Voice

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• The Peloponnesian War turns out to be no dry chronicle of abstract cause and effect. No, it is above all an intense, riveting, and timeless story of strong and weak men, of heroes and scoundrels and innocents too, all caught in the fateful circumstances of rebellion, plague, and war that always strip away the veneer of culture and show us for what we really are.

  Thucydides

  Strong, War, Men

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Between a dead-hero and a living-no one, always prefer the latter, always prefer the life! Being no one is infinitely better than being dead!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Latter

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• Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.

  Salvador Dali

  People, Influential, Moses

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• What is the most profitable? Fellowship with the good. What is the worst thing in the world? The society of evil men. What is the greatest loss? Failure in one?s duty. Where is the greatest peace? In truth and righteousness. Who is the hero? The man who subdues his senses. Who is the best beloved? The faithful wife. What is wealth? Knowledge. What is the most perfect happiness? Staying at home.

  Bhartrhari

  Happiness, Peace, Home

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• Many a man looking death, or simply compromise, in the face has been spared the label coward because his faith was bolstered by the memory of heroes who walked before him.

  Doug Phillips

  Memories, War, Men

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• When you accept your imperfections-and still are willing to brush yourself off and start again-you can make changes...for you are on a heroic journey of the heart. To me this is the best kind of hero. The kind of hero I strive to be.

  Denise Linn

  Heart, Journey, Imperfection

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• The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Transition, Sculpture, Senses

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.83

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• A hero is also someone who, in their day to day interactions with the world, despite all the pain, uncertainty and doubt that can plague us, is resiliently and unashamedly themselves. If you can wake up every day and be emotionally open and honest regardless of what you get back from the world then you can be the hero of your own story. Each and every person who can say that despite life’s various buffetings that they are proud to be the person they are is a hero.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Pain, Doubt, World

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• Five million Jews are regarding me as a traitor, but six billion people around the world think me as a hero and a good man who bring the message to all the human beings that we should survive and prevent the use of nuclear weapons and to prevent the nuclear preparations and to prevent nuclear war in the future.

  Mordechai Vanunu

  War, Men, Thinking

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• I grew up in Canada and was a huge Spider-Man fan, and never thought of Spider-Man as an American hero.

  Jake Epstein

  Men, Fans, Spiders

  "From Degrassi High To Manhattan: Jake Epstein Dons The Spidey Suit". Interview with Louis Peitzman, www.buzzfeed.com. December 12, 2012.

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• I think if I were a superhero saving the world, I'd expect at least not to have to pay income taxes. I mean there should be something in it for a hero who risks his life to save mankind every day.

  Stan Lee

  Mean, Thinking, Risk

  "Stan Lee on Upcoming Marvel Cameos & Our 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' Giveaway". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. April 30, 2015.

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• I have never written a book that I wouldn't want to read. The trouble is, I love to read horror, sf, fantasy, mysteries, hero pulps - romantic fiction, in the original, traditional meaning of that term, as opposed to mimetic fiction. But most of all, I love thrillers.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Book, Fiction, Want

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• It is better to have a cat and mouse game where the cat has the upper hand than a cat and mouse game where the mice are ruling. Because the latter means that the market participants are given free range. That was actually the big misconception of our national hero Ronald Reagan, who always talked about the magic of the market.

  George Soros

  Mean, Cat, Hands

  "The Economy Fell off the Cliff". Interview with Mathias Müller von Blumencron, Gregor Peter Schmitz and Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. November 24, 2008.

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