Anton Chekhov Quotes, Hero Quotes, Character Quotes

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions. Nor is it necessary to portray many main characters. Let two people be the center of gravity in your story: he and she.

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A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Children Quotes , Hero Quotes

All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.

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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

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We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Hero Quotes , Men Quotes

No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .

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It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal.

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In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

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Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.

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That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

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The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.

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

Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. Every man has in him the potentiality of attaining to perfect saintliness, Rishihood, or to the most exalted position of an Avatâra, or to the greatness of a hero in material discoveries.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Hero Quotes , Greatness Quotes

The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.

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If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life.

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It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven in a moment "The earth is enjoyed by heroes" - this is the unfailing truth.

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A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.

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Real change in society must start from individual initiative.

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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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Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

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Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

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