Hero Quotes - Page 21

• Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind.

  Dan Rosensweig

  Successful, Guitar, People

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• Meditation is first quietness. We live in a great din. It is well to see (for who sees it not will have but narrow sympathies and understand little that occurs around him) that the noise is often a noble uproar, "deep calling unto deep," the clamor of wonderful machinery, of great labors, of human struggles, of heroes' voices. But storms, though grand, must sink if the sea is to show the stars.

  James Vila Blake

  Stars, Struggle, Voice

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• "The myths," says Horace in his Ars Poetica, "have been invented by wise men to strengthen the laws and teach moral truths." While Horace endeavored to make clear the very spirit and essence of the ancient myths, Euhemerus pretended, on the contrary, that "myths were the legendary history of kings and heroes, transformed into gods by the admiration of the nations." It is the latter method which was inferentially followed by Christians when they agreed upon the acceptation of euhemerized patriarchs, and mistook them for men who had really lived.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Christian, Wise, Kings

  "Isis Unveiled". Book by Helena Blavatsky. Volume II, Chapter IX, 1877.

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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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• Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Soul, Coward

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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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• Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first animate exertion, if dwelt upon too intently, will usurp the place of the stern reality; and, noble objects will be contemplated, not for their own inherent worth, but on account of the day-dreams they engender. Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Dream, Hope, Reality

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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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• In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.

  D. H. Lawrence

  God, Character, Flames

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.182, Cambridge University Press

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• The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.

  W. H. Auden

  Law, Suffering, Kind

  "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("The Greeks and Us"), (p. 21), 1973.

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• Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes and its martyrs in almost every age. As I look back through the vista of centuries, I can see no end of the ranks of those who have toiled and suffered in its cause, and who wear upon their breasts its stars of the legion of honor.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Stars, Honor, Age

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• Our heroes of the former days deserved and gained their never-fading bays.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Fading, Former

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• We are independent of the change we detect. The longer the lever, the less perceptible its motion. It is the slowest pulsation which is the most vital. The hero then will know how to wait, as well as to make haste. All good abides with him who waiteth wisely; we shall sooner overtake the dawn by remaining here than by hurrying over the hills of the west.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Patience, Independent

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.532, Simon and Schuster

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• I dreamed horse and lived horse and expected, if necessary, to marry a horse; for all practical purposes I was a horse.

  James Tiptree Jr.

  Horse, Purpose, Practicals

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• Those who share my heroes are, in the deepest sense, of my own kind.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Kind, Share, My Own

  Rebecca Goldstein (1993). “The Mind-Body Problem”, Penguin Group USA

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• Everyone loves a hero. What we differ on is the question of who the heroes are, because we differ over what matters. And who matters is a function of what matters. [If] what matters is intelligence, the people who matter are the intelligent, and the people who matter the most, the heroes, are the geniuses.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Intelligent, What Matters, People

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• There is no king or sovereign state
  That can fix a hero's rate;
  Each to all is venerable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Sovereign, States

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.110, Delphi Classics

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• How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Book, Yield

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.74

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• But whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trying, Crisis, Edges

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.353, Рипол Классик

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• Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.

  James A. Garfield

  Liberty, Heroism

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• The story of Sherlock Holmes, on the surface, is about detection, but in reality, it's about the best of two men who save each other - a lost, washed-up war hero and a man who could end up committing murders instead of solving them. They come together. They become this perfect unit. They become the best friendship ever, and they become heroes. That's what we fall in love with, not Sherlock on his own. No one can love that man on his own, but Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson - the best friends ever.

  Steven Moffat

  Falling In Love, War, Reality

  "PBS restarts beloved franchise with 'Sherlock'" by Dave Walker, www.nola.com. October 24, 2010.

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• 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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• 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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