Hero Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Alzheimer's caregivers are 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat

I do think we need heroes. It gives people hope and an example to follow.

I am not an insecure actor, and this reflects in the films I have done. Yes, there was a phase when I was adamant on solo hero roles, but that is over now.

The hero is suffered to be himself.

But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.

I don't want to be a hero, I don't want to ever let you down.

Whatever will happen will happen. You either face it as a coward or you face it as a hero.

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen.

Adversity creates heroes.

All our best heroes are losers

In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.

In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.

Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are winning, you are a hero. Lose, and the backslappers fade away.

It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.

I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them.

As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.

Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.

Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?

When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing.

American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.

If you look inside yourself, and you believe, you can be your own hero.

Love is a hero’s journey, and the hero’s journey is a noble but difficult path.

I love Superman. Because he represents the hero with 1,000 faces. And the potential that lies in every human on this planet.

I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.

In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.

That is again a romantic notion: the hero. I think people enjoy a much more levelled playing field where you have the ability for many people to become heroes.

I didn't want to be a hero to kids; I didn't think I had that. I just wanted to be popular.

Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.

Is a novel anything but a trap set for a hero?

So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really.

I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.

Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve---a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind.

My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really work to achieve what they did. And I had the privilege of meeting them both.

Just tell me one boy, just one who at seven didn't aspire to be a hero or a fireman.

I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.