Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.

Joe Walsh

Every #‎ Veteran is a hero.

Joe Mantegna

Dean Martin is one of my heroes.

Joanne Harris

My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete.

Jo Nesbo

All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.

Jimmy Carter

The first year I was in office, only about 800 people came out of the Soviet Union, Jews. By the third year I was in office... second year, 1979, 51,000 came out of the Soviet Union. And every one of the human rights heroes - I'll use the word - who have come out of the Soviet Union, have said it was a turning point in their lives, and not only in the Soviet Union but also in places like Czechoslovakia and Hungary and Poland [they] saw this human rights policy of mine as being a great boost to the present democracy and freedom that they enjoy.

Jimmy Carter

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

Will Rogers

The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die.

Mahatma Gandhi

The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

James Stockdale

It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.

James Spader

The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them, ... I think (Alan Shore) intends to do the right thing, but his view of the world is very different so, to get to the right place, he sometimes takes a path that goes through a very dark forest.

James Stewart

I think one day youll find that youre the hero youve been looking for.

James Otis

These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

James McAvoy

I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film.

James Mangold

We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.

James Marsters

Being a hero doesn't mean you succeed in saving the day. It just means you tried.

Ellis Peters

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

Ellen Page

You can choose who you want to be the hero [in Hard Candy], but youll be second-guessing yourself -- theres just no right answer. Our society is obsessed with finding good and finding evil, but I think were all capable of anything.

Eddie Campbell

He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.

Holly Black

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Dost thou know what a hero is? Why, a hero is as much as one should say, a hero.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!

Henrik Ibsen

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.

Henry Rollins

Why let your fury lay deep inside you, sullenly boiling your blood into silent steam and griding your bones to dust? I it not better to thrust it out with great velocity from every pore, with your every action? Let your actions speak your legend. The physical is the manifestation of the spirit. Let your spirit be teeming with fury. Let your strength be unusual and controlled. 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.

Helen Oyeyemi

I feel like an old lady; my hero is Miss Marple.

Heinrich Heine

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

Heinrich Heine

I am no longer a divine biped. I am no longer the freest German after Goethe, as Ruge named me in healthier days. I am no longer the great hero No. 2, who was compared with the grape-crowned Dionysius, whilst my colleague No. 1 enjoyed the title of a Grand Ducal Weimarian Jupiter. I am no longer a joyous, somewhat corpulent Hellenist, laughing cheerfully down upon the melancholy Nazarenes. I am now a poor fatally-ill Jew, an emaciated picture of woe, an unhappy man.

Henry Ward Beecher

Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.

Henry Ward Beecher

Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

Henry Fielding

There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero.

Henry Fielding

Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.