Hero Quotes - Page 20

• Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home.

  Jackie French

  Book, Home, People

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• Fans want heroes. They're bored. They want a hero and want to follow that guy.

  Jon Fitch

  Bored, Guy, Fans

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I am deeply saddened to hear about the passing of one of my all time heroes, George Jones. Georges' music was real and he was able to touch thousands through his songs. Not only was he a great singer, but he also had the ability to make you relate to every one of his songs, no matter who you are. He and his music will remain timeless in the world of country music. My thoughts and prayers are with his family through this difficult time.

  Easton Corbin

  Country, Song, Prayer

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• The New York Times is reporting that back in the '60s, presidential candidate Howard Dean used a letter from a doctor about a back condition to keep himself out of the draft in Vietnam and then spent 10 months skiing. Well it sounds like he's done the impossible. He actually made Bill Clinton and George Bush look like war heroes.

  Jay Leno

  New York, War, Doctors

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• Be the hero of your own story.

  Joe Rogan

  Suspense Novels, Suspense, Stories

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• Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.

  Arthur Ashe

  Adversity, Black, Faces

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• Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business.

  Brent Sexton

  Directors, Casting, Unsung Hero

  "Q&A – Brent Sexton (Stan Larsen)". AMC interview, www.amc.com.

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• A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the
  great sense, and men, serve the state with their conscience also,
  and so necessarily resist it for the most part, and they are
  commonly treated as enemies by it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Enemy, Patriot

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.3, Cambridge University Press

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• Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tree, Doe, Looks

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• No doubt Carlyle has a propensity to exaggerate the heroic in history, that is, he creates you an ideal hero rather than another thing.... Yet what were history if he did not exaggerate it? How comes it that history never has to wait for facts, but for a man to write it? The ages may go on forgetting the facts never so long, he can remember two for every one forgotten. The musty records of history, like the catacombs, contain the perishable remains, but only in the breast of genius are embalmed the souls of heroes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Men, Two

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• That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Sacrifice, Enchantment, Difficult

  Lloyd Alexander (2015). “The Black Cauldron 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.173, Macmillan

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• Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greek, Morality, Autonomy

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• The hero used to be the one in white. Now he is harder to spot.

  Mason Cooley

  White, Used, Spots

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• Heroes are born to be troublemakers.

  Mason Cooley

  Born, Heroines, Troublemaker

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• The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.

  Mason Cooley

  Winning, Play, Comedian

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• I don't know what Joe (DiMaggio)
  wanted (in regards to being called 'the greatest living ballplayer'), but I don't have a problem, if he wanted to do that. He was my hero. Joe
  was the best all-around player. Joe
  was the best. I only played against him once, in the '51 Series.

  Willie Mays

  Player, Problem, Wanted

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• My social status in the last year has gone from zero to hero.

  Nell Zink

  Zero, Years, Gone

  "Why Cultural Significance Is The Best Job I Ever Had" by Nell Zink, www.buzzfeed.com. June 6, 2015.

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• Every time you are willing to say “Yes” to everything on your path, you express the hero inside of you.

  Maria Nemeth

  Path, Willing

  Maria Nemeth, Ph.d. (2010). “The Energy of Money: A Spiritual Guide to Financial and Personal Fulfillment”, p.288, Wellspring/Ballantine

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• The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of the globe reach even to us here, as to more distant dwellers on its banks;many a poet's stream, floating the helms and shields of heroes on its bosom.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Rivers, Floating

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Fighting, Boys

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• To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Winning, Battle, Principles

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• Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Virtue, Fame, Fortune

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.545

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• I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the fine gentleman or hero. Thus it is in the farce of life. Wise men spend their time in mirth; it is only fools who are serious.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Wise, Men, Play

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• Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul, which raises it above the troubles, disorders and emotions which the sight of great perils can arouse in it; by this strength heroes maintain a calm aspect and preserve their reason and liberty in the most surprising and terrible accidents.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Sight, Bravery, Soul

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• We may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of the knight-errant in him; Sir George Etherege was unconsciously the Fopling Flutter of his own satire; Goldsmith was the same hero to chambermaids, and coward to ladies that he has immortalized in his charming comedy; and the antiquarian frivolities of Jonathan Oldbuck had their resemblance in Jonathan Oldbuck's creator.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Humorous, Knights, Coward

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