Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, Hero Quotes, Defeat Quotes

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

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For the greater a man's works for the future, the less the present can comprehend them; the harder his fight, and the rarer success. If, however, once in centuries success does come to a man, perhaps in his latter days a faint beam of his coming glory may shine upon him. To be sure, these great men are only the Marathon runners of history; the laurel wreath of the present touches only the brow of the dying hero.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Hero Quotes , Fighting Quotes

O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Hero Quotes , Soul Quotes

We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Hero Quotes , Would Be Quotes

O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

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

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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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Hero Quotes , Heaven Quotes

The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.

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

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So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.

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Tags : Alan Seeger Quotes , Death Quotes , Hero Quotes

Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Hero Quotes , Villain Quotes

A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Hero Quotes , True Identity Quotes

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Hero Quotes

Truth is a pathless land.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Hero Quotes , Land 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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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Hero Quotes , Mind Quotes

There will be a wealth of facts revealed and revisited in [Underground] pertaining to Harriet Tubman. That is a huge part of my excitement, the fact that this generation will get such a beautifully-detailed introduction to a hero and icon that has largely lived in a few pages of our history books and in one-dimensional photographs.

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Tags : Aisha Hinds Quotes , Hero Quotes , Book Quotes

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

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Hero Quotes , Firsts Quotes

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

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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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Hero Quotes , Heaven Quotes

My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.

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Tags : Aaron Sorkin Quotes , Lying Quotes , Hero Quotes

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Regret Quotes , Hero Quotes