Hero Quotes

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like d...

I had a chance. I knew I had no more than that. it's all a hero asks for.

We are taught that the hero’s journey is the journey from weakness to strength. But I am here today ...

In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I want...

We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic pis...

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and...

I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the no...

It's HE-RO," the boy argued."No," the girl insisted,"it's HER-O.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.

Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone befo...

The moral, I suppose, would be that the first requirements for a heroic career are the knightly virt...

Hail ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of c...

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, ...

Man can never be more perfect than the sun. The sun burns us with the same light that warms us. The ...

I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land. You who have it to see, welcome it ... a...

I've never tried to reach a certain demographic of an audience or try to say, 'OK, now I'm going to ...

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantmen...

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at h...

I built an idea in my head of the hero I wanted to be, a grab bag of traits from heroes, villains, a...

It was easier to tell a hero from villain when the stakes were only life or death. Everything in bet...

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concer...

Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a f...

You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his visio...

Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?

I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay...

Sing to me," she said. "That would be valiant, to raise your voice in this dark, lonely place, and i...

But what's left on earth that I haven't tried?" Prince Lír demanded. "I have swum four rivers, each ...

I'm saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so he...

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might ...

Drizzt Do'Urden had followed a line of precepts based upon discipline and ultimate optimism. He foug...

But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symb...

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow hi...

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

Every man alive is half idiot & half hero. Only heroes could survive in this maelstrom & only idiots...

Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone fr...

Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, persevera...

Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply...

A hero must hero.

What makes the hero truly greatis never, never to despair.

...so Leola thought that a modest romance with a hero in embryo could do no harm - might even be a p...

My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write....

I didn’t yet know that romantic heroes—famous and not—are usually aimless nomads in disguise.

Heroes are important. Heroes tell us who we want to be but when they made this particular hero they ...

The Howeitat spread out along the cliffs to return the peasants' fire. This manner of going displeas...

It isn't just children who need heros.

He was always running or bounding, never just walking. He seemed always at the point of defeating th...

I could use you—if you pass the tests, of course. There are three of them. You have passed the first...

Hero-worship exists has existed and will forever exist universally among mankind.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

I don't want to die anymore. I am up to the challenge of bearing the guilt and the grief up to facin...

He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy . . . who had left upon every field of victory in Europe...

The devotion of one man had given strength and courage to all.

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would...

Those who remarked in the countenance of this young hero a dissolute audacity mingled with extreme h...

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection and will in turn be suppla...

Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!

The hero acts alone, without encouragement, relying solely on conviction and his own inner resources...

Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of...

Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited tha...

The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, ...

A susceptible child is capable of great hero worship, and a young mind can easily be obsessed by an ...

I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. ...

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be...

What should we do?", I asked, and I had a pained feeling I thought was the beginning of love. In tho...

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possib...

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, ...

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and...

'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way...

I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than h...

Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

I don't look at myself as a hero or smart person. I have a seventh-grade education, but I've had a l...

He was a man. Just a man. Yet, you always knew he'd succeed. He made you be what he wanted you to be...

Lightsong met the man's eyes, then smiled broadly, looking down at the God King. "My life to yours,"...

My life to yours. My breath beecome yours.

My life to yours. My breath become yours.

In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to...

Speaking of luck, Isabelle Lightwood is a total babe. Actually, she's better than a babe: She's a he...

He had to escape. He had to go and become a hero, the way he had been once.

Bruce Wayne/Batman: A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as put...

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to ...

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhel...

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of over...

I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I...

And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people.

Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and vill...

A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.

Being a bad guy was easy, being a hero was hard.

People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hur...

Anticipating their calamity and fright when deportation day came (August 6, 1942) he [Henryk Goldszm...

What is a hero without love for mankind.

I was right outside the NSA [on 9/11], so I remember the tension on that day. I remember hearing on ...