Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eleanor Roosevelt

We don't become heroes overnight." - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

Elbert Hubbard

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

Edward Abbey

Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest people doing useful work, keeping their families together and taking an active part in the health of their communities, opposing what is evil (in one way or another) and defending what is good. Heroes do not want power over others.

Edward Abbey

I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if we can find one. But I tend to resist or evade any kind of authority based merely on the power to coerce. Government, for example. The Army tried to train us to salute the uniform, not the man. Failed. I will salute the man, maybe, if I think he's worthy of it, but I don't salute uniforms anymore.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of greater value than life itself. This gallant Air Force hero will be remembered because he made his final contribution to aviation in the dangerous role of test pilot of an untried experimental plane, a deed that places him among the stout-hearted pioneers who gave their lives in the conquest of sky and space.

Aubrey Plaza

Tina Fey is one of my heroes.

Aristotle

The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

Aristotle

A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.

Aristotle

Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

Every man is a hero to his alias.

John Milton

Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.

We have learned who our true role models and heroes are in our society.

Nicholas Winton

I wasn't heroic because I was never in danger.

Walter Benjamin

No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.

Banksy

We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.

Banksy

Live as a villain, die as a hero

Eugene Debs

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

Alfred P. Sloan

If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.

Alfred Rosenberg

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.

Alfred Marshall

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

Aldous Huxley

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

Aldous Huxley

Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?

Albert Einstein

I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.

Alexander Hamilton

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Adolf Hitler

For the greater a man's works for the future, the less the present can comprehend them; the harder his fight, and the rarer success. If, however, once in centuries success does come to a man, perhaps in his latter days a faint beam of his coming glory may shine upon him. To be sure, these great men are only the Marathon runners of history; the laurel wreath of the present touches only the brow of the dying hero.

Adam Brody

And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

Alexander Pushkin

But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves alone. We all take on Napoleon's features, And millions of our fellow creatures Are nothing more to us than tools... Since feelings are for freaks and fools. Eugene, of course, had keen perceptions And on the whole despised mankind, Yet wasn't, like so many, blind; And since each rule permits exceptions, He did respect a noble few, And, cold himself, gave warmth its due.

Abhishek Bachchan

In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.

Abigail Adams

If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment. If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill'd take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.

Abigail Adams

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

Aaron Paul

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.

Adam Phillips

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

Adam Levine

I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.