My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
by Bono

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono

Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono

Please sign up for my Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote email using the form below.
Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono

I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono

The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono

Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono

My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono

Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono

We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono

The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono

I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono

This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono

To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono

You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)

I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono

I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono

God's Spirit moves through us and the world
at a pace that can never be constricted
by any one religious paradigm.
I love that.
- Bono

You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono

Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono

With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono

Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono

The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono

The more you see the less you know.
- Bono

It's hard to believe, hard to be a believer,
when you see the way the things are in the world.
But I am a believer!
- Bono

Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono

Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono

The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono

I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono

There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono

I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono

I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono

I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono

There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- Bono

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono

I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono

I am still amazed at how big, how enormous
a love and mystery God is -
and how small are the minds
that attempt to corral
this life force into rules and taboos,
cults and sects.
- Bono

Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono

Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono

Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono

The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono

I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono

As a rock star, I have two instincts,
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono

You have to open yourself up,
you have to be raw;
and you have to reveal yourself,
and sometimes it's very difficult.
- Bono

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd.
In the past, U2 was trying to duck that.
Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
- Bono

U2 is an original species...
there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono

Everywhere I look, I see the evidence of a creator.
But I don't see it as religion,
which has cut Irish people in two.
I don't see Jesus Christ as being
in any part of a religion.
Religion to me is almost like when God leaves -
and people devise a set of rules to fill the space.
- Bono

People should be angry about a lot of things
and the peace-and-love thing
doesn't sit comfortably with me at all.
- Bono

We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- Bono

I come from Ireland and I've seen the damage of religious warfare.
I am a believer. I don't wear the badge on the outside
but it is on the inside.
- Bono

I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
Now at what point does an unpopular conviction
interfere with your own human rights?
Forced female circumcision, for instance.
The Catholic Church's stance on contraception.
The list goes on. You know, God has some really weird kids,
and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
- Bono

Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The common denominator of our heroes
is that each set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Heroes act in spite of their fear,
while the rest of us act because of our fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller

No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you want to be heroic,
Don't emulate your heroes,
learn from them.
Heroes don't follow anyone,
they set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Not all Heroes wear capes.
- On an Apple Inc. "Genius Bar" T-shirt

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes,
but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
- Alfred North Whitehead

Heroes do what the rest of us would do,
if only we had the courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Use heroes as a springboard for inquiry
into the identity and nature of admirably human qualities.
Do not judge heroes -
neither to put them unquestioningly on a pedestal
nor to unkindly probe their flaws.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous

I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde

Thank you for visiting: My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, by Bono.

Please sign up on the form below to receive
my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.

Friendship Quotes

Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"The Philosopher of Happiness" - is the author of 100 Secrets for Living a Life You Love, co-author of Simply An Inspired Life, speaker, personal coach, and creator of the popular Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote free email.>

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,by Bono

Friendship Quotes

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
by Bono