Hero Quotes

In football, the hero and legend status is given out far too easily for me.

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

The world is full of cravens who pretended to be heroes.

Look, we're in the time of the anti-hero.

In this life, you have to be your own hero.

When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.

My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.

Mia Farrow was the person I was really excited about getting to know, because Woody Allen is one of my heroes and, just by proxy, I was a huge fan of hers.

Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.

I'm not the hero, Mac. Never have been. Never will be. Let us be perfectly clear: I'm not the antihero, either, so quit waiting to discover my hidden potential. There's nothing to redeem me.

Cause I'm Black and I'm proud I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps

I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken's heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course.

As an actor you always wanna protect your character. You wanna make them loveable, likeable. You wanna make them strong, you want them to be the hero, you want them to always be right.

I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day.

My heart has always leaned towards England, and with the close friendship of Winston [Churchill], the hero who brought hope to the world, I could not imagine a happier life for myself.

No one was a hero because everyone was a hero.

I love female heroes too and would love to bring many more to the big screen in the future.

Richard Burton was Welsh; Tom Jones is Welsh, and we Welshmen like to think of ourselves as heroes - on screen and off!

My motivation was I wanted to look like my favorite super heroes when I was a kid. Pretty cheesy, but that is what got me started.

The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.

Now I'm running against a woman who, my God, that's all she talks about. Our true heroes, it's the last thing in the world they talk about.

Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero.

Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.

Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him.

In my world, the hero always defeats the villain, the boy always gets the girl, and cancer is no more.

It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books.

If there was any drug that was to symbolize the people that ate our heroes, it seems like bath salts was a good idea. It's also a drug that, I think, is still funny to a lot of people.

I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.

There are many ways to be a criminal or hero. Don't forget that.

I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.

A hero is someone who rebels, or seems to rebel, against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them, but obviously that can work at moments.

I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.

A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

This is the Wilderness School. 'Where the Kids are animals

Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.

Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.

Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.

If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.

The cowards think of what they can lose, the heroes of what they can win.

Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.

I think everybody who puts on a uniform for their country is a hero.

You should be a hero to yourself. And if you're not... check it out.

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

Don't be a hero, live to fight another day.

Just another lonely broken hero picking up the pieces of my mind. Running out of faith and hope and reason, I'm running out of time.