Hero Quotes
2488 Hero quotes by 1701 unique authors
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In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.
— Oscar Wilde
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A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
— Thomas Carlyle
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John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a…
— Robert Burns
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Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from…
— Juvenal
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Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.
— Charles Kingsley
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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
— Joseph Campbell
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When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.
— Heinrich Heine
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A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.
— Sigmund Freud
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As the master so the valet.
— Philip James Bailey
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No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.
— Eric Berne
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Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable.…
— Primo Levi
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History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil,…
— David McCullough
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Truly, there is something to the idea that hero-worship is helpful, provided one worships a winner.
— Napoleon Hill
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A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero
— Gelett Burgess
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Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.
— Barack Obama
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Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.
— Ned Rorem
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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
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In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.
— Philip Sidney
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Adversity creates heroes.
— Picabo Street
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Fantasy stories open our eyes to an unseen world and train our minds to see beyond the visible. In the New Testament context, this is…
— Bryan Davis
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If one is determined to die for the truth, even a common man can create history.
— Velupillai Prabhakaran
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Only one who liberates himself from his psychological desires and fears indeed in truth qualify as liberation hero.
— Velupillai Prabhakaran
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Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.
— Alex North
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Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.
— Joseph Hopkinson
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In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.
— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
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