Hero Quotes - Page 6

• Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .

  George Eliot

  Children, Believe, Demand

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.199, George Eliot

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• When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World, Dupes, Spirit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1362, Delphi Classics

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• Heroes don't get anything but dead.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2008). “The Lunatic Cafe: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.305, Penguin

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• What is a society without a heroic dimension?

  Jean Baudrillard

  Dimensions, Heroism, Heroic

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.89, Verso

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• Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Adventure, Risk

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 1), 2008.

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• When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

  Joseph Campbell

  Thinking, Self, Personal Transformation

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Coward, Heroism, Being A Hero

  "John Bull's Other Island". Book by George Bernard Shaw (Preface), November 1, 1904.

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• These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

  Abigail Adams

  Heart, Character, Carpe Diem

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• What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Brave, Soul

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.318, Harvard University Press

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• To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Sports, Past, Self

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.314, Transaction Publishers

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• We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.

  James Ellis

  Inspirational, Life, Home

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• To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

  Simone Weil

  Women, Order, Giving

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• A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Reading, Writing

  1905 Heretics, ch.15.

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• Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Fall, Eye

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 87

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• A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock.

  Dan Simmons

  Rocks, Water, Watches

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Endymion”, p.75, Spectra

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• Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Dubious, Three, Kind

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.773, Macmillan

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• Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Dark, Knights, Needs

  "The Dark Knight". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Odds, Minions, Perishing

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• I believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

  Richard Attenborough

  Believe, People, Needs

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• He who angers you conquers you.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Inspirational, Life, Anger

  "Fictional character: Arturo". "Public Art", www.imdb.com. 2017.

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• The pulp hero, though he may be a renegade, is a guy who doesn't feel. Anything. Ever. And for the adolescent male - pummeled by emotions left and right, whether arising from sexuality or resulting from his necessary encounters with authority - this hero is a blessing, a relief and a release. The world he lives in, where feelings are totally under control, looks to the adolescent boy like heaven! This hero's lack of feeling - like Star Trek's Spock - is what allows him to be a genius, or allows him to shoot the bad guys and/or aliens, without a quiver to his lip.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Stars, Boys, Blessing

  "Space Cowboy: An Interview with Samuel R. Delany". Interview with Scott Westerfeld, www.nerve.com. 2001.

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• It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

  Dolores Ibarruri

  Wife, Coward, Widows

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• One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

  May Sarton

  Courage, Thinking, Decent

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.72, Open Road Media

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• not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero.

  John Barth

  Boys, Thrown

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