Top 52 Quotes About Hero Worship
#1. Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.
Natalie Clifford Barney
#2. The gut-check message is do we have the right balance in our culture? Or are we in a position where hero worship and winning at all costs has subordinated our core values?
Mark Emmert
#3. The kind of hero worship you have, when a parent is lost early and you don't know all their faults and misgivings, is a very strong influence.
Keri Russell
#4. But men are such strange creatures, really. I think most of them would rather we weren't around at all, so they could just spend time mooning over each other. Hero worship and all that stuff.
Paul Russell
#5. Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a great man by a discriminating criticism. Hero-worship, which paints a faultless monster, whom the world never saw, is like those modern pictures which are a blaze of light without any shadow.
James Freeman Clarke
#7. Truly, there is something to the idea that hero-worship is helpful, provided one worships a winner.
Napoleon Hill
#8. The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.
Irwin Edman
#9. I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think Joseph Needham is a classic example - I do value their counsel.
Simon Winchester
#10. A susceptible child is capable of great hero worship, and a young mind can easily be obsessed by an idea which persists into adult life.
Agatha Christie
#12. Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
Herbert Spencer
#14. I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people - the worship of spirits is synonymous with barbarism - it is mere fetish ... There is something philosophic in the worship of the heroes of the human race.
George Henry Borrow
#15. My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.
Karen Duffy
#16. Captain Future!" Ezra's faded eyes were agleam with hero worship. "The greatest feat of space pilotin' in history! No one else in the universe would even have tried it!
Edmond Hamilton
#17. Laudy laud! is my new phrase for the hero worship that butters the human bread.
Linda Robinson
#18. I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my father's frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
#19. Bhakti in religion may be a road to the salvation of the soul. But in politics, Bhakti or hero-worship is a sure road to degradation and to eventual dictatorship. (Mukherjee
Madhav Godbole
#20. I don't like to go to conventions, and I don't like to relate to people on a level of hero worship, because there's no real communication going on there.
Alan Moore
#21. It is a thing forever changing, this of Hero-worship: different in each age, difficult to do well in any age. Indeed, the heart of the whole business of the age, one may say, is to do it well.
Thomas Carlyle
#22. At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.
Thomas Hughes
#23. If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth. To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of newness and life and hope, is to feel young at any time of life.
Charles Horton Cooley
#24. Bonhoeffer said it's not about hero worship, but intimacy with God.
Jan Karon
#25. The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.
Mahatma Gandhi
#27. Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
Thomas Carlyle
#28. Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay.
Lucy Lawless
#29. I'm not much given to straight, irony-free hero-worship.
Richard Dawkins
#30. The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority
Yukio Mishima
#31. The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#32. If you want to know what a man's character is really like ... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.
Sydney J. Harris
#33. It may be a crush, or hero worship ( ... ), it may not be love, but if you've never felt anything stronger, how do you tell the difference?
Laurell K. Hamilton
#34. Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship.
Robert Webb
#35. An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy.
Terry Southern
#36. They spoke as though these Princes are so remote from life as we know it that the smallest sign of humanity, the mere fact even that they communicated by means of speech was worth noting and proclaiming.
Nancy Mitford
#37. A perpetual scandal: honoring the dead.
Marty Rubin
#38. The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.
Noam Chomsky
#39. Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
Thomas Carlyle
#41. People were always ready to yield their
wills, to worship the hero, because they were not given a chance
for developing initiative, stability, and independence, said the great
nineteenth-century Russian sociologist Nikolai Mikhailovsky
Ernest Becker
#42. Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.
Bill Vaughan
#43. It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile.
Christopher Hitchens
#44. Since Genesis 3 we have been addicted to setting our sights on something, someone, smaller than Jesus.
Tullian Tchividjian
#45. New black heroes were made and old ones dropped every day.
Mark Kurlansky
#46. Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
Thomas Carlyle
#47. You can't ever be your heroes, but you can love their gifts.
John Piper
#48. It is incredible what a pronounced hero can get away with and what can be accredited to him.
There were no inconvenient questions asked of Robin because everyone preferred to believe that heroes defeat villains and that there were distinguishable traits that could easily tell the two apart.
Arianna Alexsandra Collins
#49. A religiously ambiguous Thomas Jefferson is not useful to the Christian right.
Matt McCook
#50. One doesn't defend one's god; one's god is in himself a defense.
Henry James
#51. Thing is, what does a hero look like these days? Muscles and lycra? Life isn't a contest of strength anymore. Jobs, banks, taxes. Boring social reality.
Adam Baker
#52. I look at my first books and am glad they weren't published ... You start writing by imitating your heroes, then you keep the heart of that worship in your work. As time goes by, you get other influences and find your own voice.
Markus Zusak
