Hero Quotes

That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.

The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.

It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.

When religion doth with virtue join, it makes a hero like an angel shine.

To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.

That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.

Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.

Believe me that every man you see in a military uniform is not a hero.

Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

We continually want to unmask our heroes as if there were more to be learned from their nakedness than from their choice of clothing.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

This child, who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero becomes a martyr? We are proud of them.

I wouldn't mind being a hero to a kid. I grew up idolizing players, so I know how important that is for a lot of younger kids.

The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.

We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.

You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.

When it comes to fund managers and market strategists, this year's hero usually turns into next year's zero.

He is coming! He is coming! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom.

Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.

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.

Generally speaking, I think it is unbecoming to act as a national hero, wave hands and so on.

Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most

Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.

The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part.

The difference between the hero and the coward is that the hero sticks in there five minutes longer

A hero in one age will be a hero in another.

In the heat of battle, heroes emerge, sometimes from the most unlikely of sources.

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.

There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never recriminate.

My father was absent and he was a hero to me.

I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .

The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.

I guess what we know about the Avengers is there's a reason why all of the heroes that we've been meeting, from Thor to Captain America - everybody - they need to work together.

I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

There are no heroes in chess.

Lance Armstrong is the guy that I would put up there as one of my heroes. He's done something that no one else has done and when you put into it what he overcame, it's absolutely unbelievable.

Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).

But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.