Henry Rollins Quotes

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Wolverine is a world-weary old warrior. His rage issue notwithstanding, I see him as someone with the tortured soul of a poet, but one who has seen too many friends and lovers die. Even with that, he has grown into a leader and a true hero.

Charlie would be so proud of what these young people are accomplishing today and, in true Charlie fashion, would encourage them to walk to the very edge of their comfort zone and then take another step.

I am not a brave man... I do not have the right stuff. Astronauts are really a cut above.

A modern hero should … think as well as act and should inspire Americans with a forward-looking set of values.

The greatest gift the hero leaves his race, is to have been a hero.

John Paul Jones was probably clinically committable, but that doesn’t take anything away fro him as a hero.

The human race is a race of cowards. I am not only marching with them but am carrying the banner.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Disobedience is the stamp of the hero.

No doubt Jean Bart does not talk like you, but who of you could act like Jean Bart?

Petraeus is the finest general I have ever worked for; Holly Petraeus is a great American hero.

Corky is an ordinary person who does extraordinary things. He is a true inspiration, but he doesn't know that he's an inspiration.

General David Petraeus is an American patriot and hero.

Any child who dreams to do good in the world has Mandela as his hero. I own a dog-eared copy of 'Long Walk to Freedom' and visited Robben Island, where he was imprisoned, to stand in a cell only as wide as an arm's span.

We want to teach a better way and to be a hero, and there's no one like Wonder Woman to do it.

The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience - that is the hero's deed.

In the heat of battle, heroes emerge, sometimes from the most unlikely of sources.

The history of struggle is rich with stories of heroes and heroines - some of them leaders, some of them followers, all of them deserve to be remembered.

To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man -- these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity. History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own.

And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?