Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Rollins

All my big heroes are literary, writers.

Henry Rollins

The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.

Henry A. Kissinger

Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of inner values.

Henry David Thoreau

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

Henry David Thoreau

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

John Adams

The only way to form an army to be confided in, was a systematic discipline, by which means all men may be made heroes.

James Scott

A hero knows it takes hard work and a long time to get published; a fool thinks it should happen immediately, because he thinks heÕs a hero already.

James Russell Lowell

Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves.

James Russell Lowell

Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.

James Purefoy

We start off wearing frilly shirts and britches and being good guys and the heroes. And then as time goes on, every English actor ends up playing bad guys. That's what we do.

Laura Dern

There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.

Laura Dern

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that

Larry Hagman

All my heroes, I guess, like John Wayne and all those guys, they drank and they smoked and did all the manly things. It was expected of you. And now abstinence in all kinds of forms is a part of living. It's a pretty - I don't smoke anymore, I quit that 42 years ago

Libba Bray

Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.

Friedrich Schiller

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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.

George Foreman

Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile.

George Foreman

A hero is someone right who doesn't change.

Jon M. Chu

I was never crying and shaking like the Beliebers do, but I understand the idolizing of a hero.

Jon Ronson

No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists.

Jon Bernthal

Some people that are heroes to some can be looked at by another group of people as villains. As far as a middle point, just speaking for myself, that's exactly what to avoid.

Johnny Damon

I wouldn't mind being a hero to a kid. I grew up idolizing players, so I know how important that is for a lot of younger kids.

Johnny Carson

Like their parents, kids flock to see James Bond and Derek Flint movies - outrageously antiheroic heroes who break all the taboos, making attractive the very things the kids are told they shouldn't do themselves.

Luigi Pirandello

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Louis Sachar

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

John Archibald Wheeler

Of all heroes , Spinoza was Einstein 's greatest. No one expressed more strongly then he a belief in the harmony , the beauty , and most of all the ultimate comprehensibility of nature .

Eric Lander

If you do something extraordinary for your customer you will never be forgotten. Customer service heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

Eric Berne

No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.

Enric Sala

When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.

James Franco

We tell specific stories about ourselves to ourselves and we're all the heroes of our own lives. But you live through certain experiences with other people, and sometimes they have very different takes on what happened.

James Belushi

Heroes aren't born, they' re cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.

Norman Spinrad

I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.