Josh Keaton Quotes

The price of greatness is responsibility.

With great power goes great responsibility.

Out of all of the Spider-People, including Peter Parker, Gwen Stacy has the most over-developed sense of responsibility.

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.

There have been a few friends who have taught me some great lessons in life. I wouldn't like to name them. They did things that I never expected out of them that left me heart-broken. It was during these rough patches in life that they left me alone. I know now that it was only my position that they were interested in.

The law has no power over heroes.

Maybe it's every kid's dream to go into a pod and come out looking like Captain America. And you don't even have to exercise or lift weights! It's great!

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Being a superhero is a lot of fun.

Sometimes you just work, you work, you work, and you have no life, no boyfriend, you have no more friends, no more nothing, you just make movies, and you're tired, and you don't know why. Then everybody says, 'Oh you are so lucky, you are working!' And you're like, 'Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's so great!'

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

He really loved baseball and loved being on the field. But Mantle was lonely in a lot of ways. He had many great friends, and by all accounts was a good, generous and loyal friend. But there were a lot of people who wanted only a piece of him.

So many people counted on me to be the party, I had to move far enough away that they wouldn't want to drive there.

To the victor belong the responsibilities.

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.

Life is lighter than a feather; duty is heavier than a mountain.