Roberto Clemente Quotes

I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.

Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth. This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.

Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look.

It's not just children who need heroes.

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

I think what we're lacking in society, not only in the U.S. but also around the world, is to find heroes once again and to celebrate these kind of people.

Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat.

I love the ideas of looking back to historical heroes to give us inspiration on how we can be today's heroes to move forward in the future. So guys like... William Bradford and William Wallace, the Bravehearts, the Patriots, the Pilgrims. There are so many of those people throughout history... whose stories have just never been told.

People need heroes, in music and every aspect of life.

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced.

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.

Nations need heroes, for heroes make the nation believe that the impossible is possible.

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

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

Let the world admire the supposed wisdom and valor of our great men, Perhaps they may adopt the qualities that have been ascribed to them, and thus good may be done.

Heroes have always served as a reflection of their times, a template of who we are and what we want to be.

I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, Einstein, and Mr. Cary Grant.

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.

I think that there are many ways in which people look for heroes, messiahs, things like that in society. I think some people are looking for something that maybe they don't possess. To me, ultimately, you are looking for someone who understands you, or at least you think understands you. It all comes down to understanding for who we look to as heroes.

Heroes come along when you need them.

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

Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you.

You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.

I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship.