#hero

My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on. ↗

— John Hughes

#because #comfortable #dylan #each #forward

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#fallen #hero #heroic #heroism #impossible

Yeah, I was a local hero. It was great for me, 'cos I had a full house every night all night seven nights a week for five years that I played. The next five years I just played five days a week, but I still had a full house every night. ↗

— John Hunter

#cos #days #every #every night #five

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge. ↗

— William Hurt

#basis #become #calculated #courage #guys

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward. ↗

— Dolores Ibarruri

#coward #hero #than #widow #wife

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

— Henrik Ibsen

#finance #follow #heroes #like #off

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#death #defies #down #duty #fate

Full circle from the tomb of the womb to the womb of the tomb we come, an ambiguous, enigmatical incursion into a world of solid matter that is soon to melt from us like the substance of a dream. ↗

— Joseph Campbell Hero with a

#dreams

Trains are great dirty smoky things," said Will. "You won't like it." Tessa was unmoved. "I won't know if I like it until I try it, will I?" "I've never swum naked in the Thames before, but I know I wouldn't like it." "But think how entertaining for sightseers," said Tessa, and she saw Jem duck his head to hide the quick flash of his grin. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#humor #jem-carstairs #teasing #tessa-gray #will-herondale

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#inspirational #inspirational