Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

George William Russell

In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.

George William Curtis

Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.

Jeffery Deaver

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

Jean-Claude Juncker

Yesterday's shining heroes of Brexit have become the sorrowful heroes of today.

Jean Paul

No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one

Jerry Robinson

I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.

Jennifer McMahon

All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

I love the Victoria's Secret Angels. They're sort of my gorgeous glamour heroes.

James A. Garfield

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.

Jacqueline Winspear

Shame, isn’t it? That we only like our heroes out in the street when they are looking their best and their uniforms are ‘spit and polished,’ and not when they’re showing us the wounds they suffered on our behalf.

Jack Reynor

I'd love to do a film with Michael Fassbender. He's one of my heroes. I think he's absolutely amazing and I would love to do a project with him.

Gao Xingjian

If everyone is a hero, then disasters and atrocities lose their meaning. It's only when certain people are heroes and others are not that these tragedies and disasters that mankind faces take on meaning.

Frank Miller

My Sin City heroes are knights in dirty, blood-caked armor. They bring justice to a world that gives them no medals, no praise, no reward. That world, that city, often kills them for their brave service.

Frank Miller

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

Frank Miller

The most questionable thing I did was make Superman a government agent. If this had been a Superman story, I'd never have done that - and I know that, because I have a Superman story I want to tell someday. In this story, Batman was the hero, so the world was built around him.

Frank Miller

What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.

Christopher Dawson

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.

Chris Matthews

Every party and every movement tends to need a hero.

Chris Matthews

How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. Because he was sick, he was a reader, and because he was a reader, [John F.] Kennedy had heroes. Because he had heroes, he went into politics. (Kennedy liked Sir Walter Scott, King Arthur's knights, and biographies of political leaders.) If he hadn't been sick, he might have been like everybody else in the family, a jock.

George Mikes

The man who is not afraid of danger is not a hero, but a psychopath.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

He who masters the grey everyday is a hero.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and revive a frozen heart in that convict, one may wait upon him for years, and at last bring up from the dark depths a lofty soul, a feeling, suffering creature; one may bring forth an angel, create a hero! There are so many of them, hundreds of them, and we are all to blame for them. [...] If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

Franz Beckenbauer

He has been named as the heir apparent of the great Argentine hero, Diego Maradona, by journalists, players, and Maradona himself, alike. I'd personally put him in a drawer of my bedside table.

Jeanette Winterson

If there's one thing I can't stand it's a hero without a cause. People like that just make trouble so that they can solve it.

Jeanette Winterson

What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to take charge of who you are, you're the one who has to take control. And also, you're the one who can bring something to the community.

Jeanette Winterson

In this life, you have to be your own hero.