H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses... In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history.”
“Heroes and Star Trek were 2006 and 2007, and I was just about to turn 30, and everything changed. I found myself on this amazing journey, which continues, but it's now at a natural transition point. I'm reevaluating and reexamining how and where I go from here.”
“Heroes are a mischievous race.”
“Heroes are born to be troublemakers.”
“Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.”
“Heroes are ghosts, haunting many a life. So, be wary of the hero, oh courageous foolish soul.”
“Heroes are hero no matter if everybody is watching them or nobody watching them.”
“Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.”
Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile
“Heroes are higher than their vulnerability that is why they are heroes.”
“Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one's role in society, and the relation between the two.”
Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage
“Heroes are just people who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and were too stupid to run away.”
– A reminder that courage isn’t about perfection, but about staying when it matters.”
Source: Paulson Space Quest Adventure
“Heroes are like angels, they're all around us… we just don’t always stop to notice ...”
“Heroes are made because they are moved. Not in their head, but in their heart.”
“Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.”
Source: Everneath
“Heroes are made in the hour of defeat”
Source: Collected Works
“Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“Heroes are merely idiots who didn't graduate into cruelty.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Heroes are more than just stories, they’re people. And people are complicated; people are strange. Nobody is a hero through and through, there’s always something in them that’ll turn sour... you’ll learn it one day. There are no heroes, only villains who win.”
Source: The Sea-Stone Sword
“Heroes are motivated to sacrifice their natural life by the dread of utter oblivion, and their heroic deeds grant them instead a more permanent existence as part of culture.”
Source: Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization
“Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth. This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.”
“Heroes are never born fearless. They become heroes by facing their fears, by meeting them head on and saying, 'You do not control me, or own me anymore.”
“Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit.”
“Heroes are not born but made through their choices. One could be given the greatest gifts of the world and choose to do nothing with them. Or someone with nothing could forge their way to the pinnacle of power. Whether mortal or immortal, our destiny is in our hands.”
Source: Immortal
“Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better. Interweave all these communities and you really have an America that is back on its feet again. I really think we are gonna have to reassess what constitutes a 'hero'.”
Source: American Dreams: Lost and Found
“Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make it better.”
“Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.”
“Heroes are not made. They are born out of circumstances and rise to the occasion when their spirit can no longer coexist with the hypocrisy of injustice to others.”
“Heroes are not only those who are ready to die for their countries but also those who are ready to die for their principles.”
Source: Utopias and Realities: A Colorful Journey Through Life
“Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.”
“Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.”
“Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.”
“Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple.”
Source: Dark Moon
“Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows out the candle; a women terrified of the pain of childbirth who says, 'It is time to become a mother'. Heroism does not always live on the battlefield.”
“Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.”
“Heroes are rebels with a cause. Rebels because they challenge the traditional ways of thinking and refuse to follow the herd. They have a cause, a vision, that’s larger than life.”
Source: Psychology of the Hero Soul
“Heroes are the most wanted and most needed people in the world.”
“Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.”
“Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.”
Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm
“Heroes aren't always the ones that win. They're the ones who lose sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“Heroes aren't always the ones who win," she said. "They're the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“Heroes aren't always the ones who win. They're the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes.
~Clary to Emma”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“Heroes aren't heroes because they worship the light, but because they know the darkness all to well to stand down and live with it.”
Source: The Mischievous Mrs. Maxfield
“Heroes aren't the ones who win, they're the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous." "Who made up that rule?" "It's a known fact.”
Source: The Seeress of Kell
“Heroes aren't always the ones who win. They're the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“Heroes aren't athletes who set new sports records, or Hollywood actors who make 'daring' films or politicians who make bold promises. Heroes are people who place themselves at risk for the benefit of others.”
“Heroes aren't born, they're cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.”
“Heroes became extinct when saving the world became more important to rescue a damsel in distress.”
Source: Gris
“Heroes became heroes flaws and all gives us hope. "You mean I don't have to be perfect to fulfill my Dream, to make a contribution?" Hardly. It takes commitment, courage, and passion to live a dream and make a contribution. Heroes had these qualities along with their flaws.”
“Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.”
Source: The opium general and other stories