Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Hero Quotes, Greatness 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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The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

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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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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

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So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like archangels. The sky rained heroes upon the astonished earth. Surely the last fights of mankind were the best. What was the heavy pounding of your Homeric swordsmen, what was the creaking charge of chariots, besides this swift rush, this crash, this giddy triumph, this headlong sweep to death?

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The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

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

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Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

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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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There is no king or sovereign state That can fix a hero's rate; Each to all is venerable.

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The hero is suffered to be himself.

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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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The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.

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The true Christian hero will appear in the cause of Christ, not only when it is prevailing, but when it seems to be declining; (he) will be on the right side, though it be not the rising side.

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

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Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.

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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

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All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.

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