Hero Quotes - Page 31

Freud was a hero. He descended to the "Underworld" and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone. We who follow Freud have the benefit of the knowledge he brought back with him and conveyed to us. He survived. We must see of we now can survive without using a theory that is in some measure an instrument of defence.

A resolute leader who collects ten thousand adventurers about him can do as he pleases. Were the whole world a single Imperium, it would thereby become merely the maximum conceivable field for the exploits of such conquering heroes.

I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died...every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.

Everybody cryin' mercy / When they don't know the meaning of the word.

When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.

Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.

The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.

Nothing is so treacherous as the obvious.

No man is a hero in his own country.

Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

Every #‎ Veteran is a hero.

Only while they are conforming their actions to the model of some archetypal hero do the Arunta feel that they are truly alive, for in those roles they are immortal. The occasions on which they slip from such molds are quite meaningless, for time immediately devours those occasions and reduces them to nothingness.

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

In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.

I have found my hero and he is me.

That is straight out of Gandhi. If people are not afraid of the dictatorship, that dictatorship is in big trouble. … If you fight with violence, you are fighting with your enemy’s best weapon, and you may be a brave but dead hero.

The idea of difficulty animates us all the time. We don’t want man to be an angel; we want him to be a hero. That is to say, a man like us, but who does extraordinary things. He jumps, yes, but in spite of the law of gravity. And everything he does is always ‘in spite of.’

The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life.

As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.

Where you live matters: there’s only one MIT. And there's only one Hollywood and only one Silicon Valley. This isn't a coincidence: for whatever you're doing, there's usually only one place where the top people go. You should go there. Don’t settle for anywhere else. Meeting my heroes and learning from them gave me a huge advantage. Your heroes are part of your circle too - follow them.

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

Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.