Hero Worship Quotes

27 quotes by 23 authors

• I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
• I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people - the… — George Henry Borrow
• The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• I'm a sucker for hero worship. — Ronald Reagan
• Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . .… — Thomas Carlyle
• To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
• The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more… — Irwin Edman
• If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for… — Sydney J. Harris
• Truly, there is something to the idea that hero-worship is helpful, provided one worships a winner. — Napoleon Hill
• Society is founded on hero-worship. — Thomas Carlyle
• Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind. — Thomas Carlyle
• The kind of hero worship you have, when a parent is lost early and you don't know all their faults and misgivings, is a very… — Keri Russell
• Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. — Herbert Spencer
• We are all alike, on the inside. — Mark Twain
• Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very… — Mark Twain
• Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but he had not… — Dorothy L. Sayers
• It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that… — Stephen Fry
• The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority — Yukio Mishima
• If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth.… — Charles Horton Cooley

Who Wrote These Hero Worship Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 27 Hero Worship Quotes as follows:

• 3 Hero Worship Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
• 2 Hero Worship Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• 2 Hero Worship Quotes by Mark Twain
• 1 Hero Worship Quote by Simon Winchester
• 1 Hero Worship Quote by James Freeman Clarke
• 1 Hero Worship Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin
• 1 Hero Worship Quote by Karen Duffy
• 1 Hero Worship Quote by Robert Webb
• 1 Hero Worship Quote by B R Ambedkar
• 1 Hero Worship Quote by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
• 1 Hero Worship Quote by George Henry Borrow
• 1 Hero Worship Quote by Ronald Reagan
• 1 Hero Worship Quote by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
• 1 Hero Worship Quote by Irwin Edman
• 1 Hero Worship Quote by Sydney J. Harris
• 1 Hero Worship Quote by Napoleon Hill
• 1 Hero Worship Quote by Keri Russell
• 1 Hero Worship Quote by Herbert Spencer
• 1 Hero Worship Quote by Dorothy L. Sayers
• 1 Hero Worship Quote by Stephen Fry
• 1 Hero Worship Quote by Yukio Mishima
• 1 Hero Worship Quote by Charles Horton Cooley
• 1 Hero Worship Quote by Bobby Fischer