Hero Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

A hero's love is as delicate as a maiden's.

Dean Martin is one of my heroes.

A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.

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

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.

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

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.

Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.

Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.

If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications.

Alzheimer's caregivers are heroes.

We may be the protagonists of tragedy, but we are also the heroes of our most beautiful and thrilling experiences.

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.

There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.

Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.

It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns" (After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero' by Mariah Carey)

One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.

And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners.

I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up.

The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience - that is the hero's deed.

The adventure that the hero is ready for is the one he gets.

The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.

I never wanted anything to happen to my parents, but a hero needs an origin story.

You don't become a hero by choosing to become a hero. You become a hero by becoming an example, by being an example for what's possible, for being an example for one person.

It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.

No. The real heroes wear camo. I'm not one of them.

Every man is the hero of his own song.

The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in who it sees as its heroes.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.