Hero Quotes - Page 5

• The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes.
  The hero in each of us is required to answer the call of individuation.
  We must turn away from the cacaphony of the outerworld to hear the inner voice.
  When we can dare to live its promptings, then we achieve personhood.
  We may become strangers to those who thought they knew us, but at least we are no longer strangers to ourselves.

  James Hollis

  Voice, Knowing, Finding Yourself

  James Hollis (1993). “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife”, p.116, Inner City Books

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• Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

  Will Rogers

  Life, Sports, Earth

  Quoted in'A RogersThesaurus' inThe Saturday Review, 25 Aug 1962. Another form of the quote appeared in a syndicated newspaper article,15 Feb1925: 'Heroing is one of the shortestlived professions there is'.

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• I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Nurse, World

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• When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspiring, Success, Positive Thinking

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• Every hero becomes a bore at last.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Badass, Hipster

  'Representative Men' (1850) 'Uses of Great Men'

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• We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

  Noam Chomsky

  Ideas, Should, Good Ideas

  Interview with David Cogswell, www.davidcogswell.com. September 14, 1993.

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• Alongside the statement about one man's poison being another man's high, one might as well add that one man's saint can be another man's sore and one man's hero can turn out to be that man's biggest hangup.

  Ken Kesey

  Men, Saint, Add

  Ken Kesey (1965). “Sometimes a great notion”

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• Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• In the heat of battle, heroes emerge, sometimes from the most unlikely of sources.

  Brian Herbert

  Battle, Heat, Sometimes

  Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson (2010). “Dune: The Butlerian Jihad”, p.353, Macmillan

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  In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

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• All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Forgotten, Villain, Remembered

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• Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Sports, Confused, Real

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1962). “The Image or What Happened to the American Dream”

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• The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Youth, Admiration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.99, Library of America

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• Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Military, History, Reason

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

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• You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Long, Villain, Batman Movie

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• Nurture your mind with great thoughts

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Happiness, Inspiration, Thinking

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.111, London : H. Colburn

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• Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid

  Raymond Chandler

  Mean, Men, Streets

  "The Simple Art of Murder," Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1944

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• The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

  Washington Irving

  Sports, Idols, Yesterday

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.144, Penguin

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• The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.350, Рипол Классик

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• The heroic cannot be the common,
  nor the common the heroic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Common, Reconcile, Heroism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.379, Library of America

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• In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

  Dean Koontz

  Sacrifice, Self, Age

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.607, Bantam

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• The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Differences, Ordinary

  Henry Miller (1969). “Mémoires, Plaidoiries Et Documents”, p.167, New Directions Publishing

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• The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Class, Criminals, Worship

  Oscar Wilde, Bob Blaisdell, Odette Blaisdell (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.155, Courier Corporation

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• Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Sports, Memorial Day, Aspiration

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.169, Shambhala Publications

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• If you can't be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Chickens, Ifs

  Ina May Gaskin (2010). “Spiritual Midwifery”, p.234, Book Publishing Company

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