Hero Quotes

2488 Hero quotes by 1701 unique authors

Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical. — Rutger Hauer
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something… — Vaclav Havel
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps… — Vaclav Havel
Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life. — Vaclav Havel
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things… — Vaclav Havel
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so… — Vaclav Havel
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him… — Vaclav Havel
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of… — Vaclav Havel
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible… — Vaclav Havel
I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten… — Vaclav Havel
Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that… — Vaclav Havel
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human… — Vaclav Havel
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought. — Vaclav Havel
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever… — Vaclav Havel
There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side. — Vaclav Havel
If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a… — Vaclav Havel
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political… — Vaclav Havel
None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise… — Vaclav Havel
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the… — Vaclav Havel
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg… — Salma Hayek
We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too. — Helen Hayes
The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles. — Ira Hayes
My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the… — Mitch Hedberg
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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