Hero Quotes

The hero is the one with ideas.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.

Heroes aren't born, they're cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.

The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.

Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home.

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

These manly sentiments, in private life, make the good citizen; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

We will never forget the passengers of Flight 93, who courageously confronted the terrorists, defeating another planned attack on America. They are the heroes for our times.

There are so many people out there working with great grassroots and global and national organizations that are unsung heroes to me.

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.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

The American heroes are wearing camo. That's not me.

The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

My mom is my hero. [She] inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime anyone inspires you to dream, that's gotta be your hero.

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.

Don Quixote was a song for a 1969 Michael Douglas movie called Hail Hero! I wrote the title song for the film and they also used the Don Quixote one I had submitted.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy's gonna have a new meaning/ when we are judged by the children of our slaves.

It really doesn't matter whether it's the villain or the hero. Sometimes the villain is the most colorful. But I prefer a part where you don't know what he is until the end.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

Don't try to be a hero. Try to be a winner.

Make the customer the hero of your brand's story.

I'm not a huge comic book fan, but I'm a closet fan of certain Marvel heroes, two of those being Iron Man, and the other being Guardians of the Galaxy, which I'm looking forward to.

In a career playing heroes, I learned a little about the real thing. A hero stands up-for himself, for herself, but most importantly for others.

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.

If your Olympic Hero were to use the Worm in the 1996 Olympic Games, it would be so embarassing to all the other atheletes - and our country, mind you- that the USA would have finished behind Guam.

I don't get the action... well, I never did get the big action hero parts. I was always locked into making the kids movies, which were a lot of fun.

DJs used to be American heroes. No more. Today, being a disk jockey is generally regarded as being slightly more respectable than snatching purses for a living, or robbing graves.

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

I think that teachers have the hardest job in the world, and they are the most unsung heroes so much of the time.

My heroes were all in the theatre.

Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.

The action heroes were very cool as a kid. You would compare yourself with them - Jean-Claude Van Damme and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?

We thank thee for this opportunity to show our love for these heroes who have accomplished such wonders for the beloved United States, which was founded by noble and inspired men.

Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new.

Entertain me, heroes of Olympus. Give me a reason to do more." Bacchus to Percy and Jason

You would never expect a black woman to be the hero.

I like to say I'm not a hero. I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero

It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. Like them, he was slandered and misunderstood.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

Make it a goal to be somebody's hero.

In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.

I know the game wasn't a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for former heroes who have now fallen on hard times.