Victor Hugo Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Hero Quotes

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

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People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Hero Quotes , Eye Quotes

Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

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Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.

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I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Hero Quotes , Philosophical Quotes

I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.

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Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.

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John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his wo; 'Twill heighten all his joy.

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Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absolutely marvellous minor poet, I think, and a great scholar.

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Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose?

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Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Hero Quotes , Heart Quotes

The easy answer is to say that it's a part for black people to see black heroes, but to me it's important to young Mexican kids to see a black hero.

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

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Your country requires heroes; be heroes; your duty is to go on working, and then everything will follow of itself.

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All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Hero Quotes , Men Quotes

Mr Speaker, Mr Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans, last month I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of our last troops to serve in Iraq. Together, we offered a final, proud salute to the colors under which more than a million of our fellow citizens fought, and several thousand gave their lives. We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United States safer and more respected around the world.

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Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Hero Quotes , Defeat Quotes

What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Hero Quotes , Writing Quotes

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

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Tags : Adam Baldwin Quotes , Hero Quotes , Long Quotes