I don't believe in hero worship. Votes: 5
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. Votes: 5
I'm a sucker for hero worship. Votes: 4
Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ. Votes: 4
The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority Votes: 4
I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer. Votes: 4
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. Votes: 4
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? Votes: 4
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. Votes: 4
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. Votes: 4
I'm not much given to straight, irony-free hero-worship. Votes: 3
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. Votes: 3
My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White. Votes: 3
Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship. Votes: 3
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. Votes: 3
I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken. Votes: 3
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. Votes: 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. Votes: 3
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. Votes: 3
One must be careful not to allow himself fall into the trap of hero worship; we are to take counsel from men, emulate their courage, and godliness, but we are not allowed to worship them. Heroes are men, and men make mistakes. Votes: 3
I would never behave with so little dignity. Nor would I wish to be confronted in such a manner by anyone else. Vampires inspire screams, not squees. Involuntary urination is common, I grant, but it properly flows from a sense of terror, not an ecstatic sense of hero worship. Votes: 3
We are all alike, on the inside. Votes: 2
Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind. Votes: 2
The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
It now seems to be quite a thing to pull down the mighty from their seats and roll them in the mire. This practice deserves pronounced condemnation. Hero worship is a tremendous force in uplifting and strengthening. Humanity, let us have our heroes. Let us continue to believe that some have been truly great. Votes: 2
She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realized that there was, after all, something godlike about him. He could control a horse. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety. Votes: 2
Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship. Votes: 1
In Kolkata is a temple where the deity worshipped is Amitabh Bachchan. The daily aarti is performed to the chanting of the Amitabh Chaleesa. And people still ask, 'Could our mythological heroes be based on actual people who once lived?' Votes: 1
What my research has shown me is that experts tend on the whole to form very rigid camps; that within these camps, a dominant perspective emerges that often silences opposition; that experts move with the prevailing winds, often hero-worshipping their own gurus. Votes: 1
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. Votes: 1
Society is founded on hero-worship. Votes: 0
Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man. Votes: 0
Truly, there is something to the idea that hero-worship is helpful, provided one worships a winner. Votes: 0
Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something. Votes: 0
The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship. Votes: 0
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. Votes: 5 Joseph Campbell
Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Votes: 6 Richard J. Foster