Hero Quotes

There's only one problem with the hero's journey, it never included women.

The hero's journey is simply who we are as human beings.

Good.” He straddled her, caging her with his body. “Were it up to me, all of London would know what we do here. -Griffin to Hero.

Finally he turned his head toward her face and brushed a kiss over her cheek. " love you and I believe with all my heart that you love me as well. Why can’t you say it, Hero?"

When the moment comes, will you take your chance to be a hero?

I was going to be the hero of the movie [The Lost World]. I had to speak up and be like, "Shouldn't I be the one doing that?

Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero.

Most American heroes of the Revolutionary period are by now two men, the actual man and the romantic image. Some are even three men - the actual man, the image, and the debunked remains.

Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.

Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him.

Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.

We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human.

My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.

Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents.

However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.

There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.

No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.

the beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptian heroes, lies in lives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst of sterile millions

My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too.

One of my greatest personal heroes is Jerry Lopez. When you can snowboard like he surfs, you'll be there!

When we see a hero, on the one hand, we applaud them; on the other hand, there is something in a lot of people that wants to tear the hero down.

We dream forever unless we awaken. We move from one dream to another, some beautiful, some we're the hero or the heroine, some horrible, some nonsensical, some boring.

He who, with strong passions, remains chaste--he who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and forgive--these are strong men, spiritual heroes.

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!

Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.

I was no hero. The dearest wishes of my heart were for safety and tranquility. The world was a perilous place, wrong for the likes of me.

Heroes and cowards feel the same fear and action creates opportunities.

My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.

Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile.

I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work is sure of his manhood.

It was a story called ‘The Hero’ which I sold to Galaxy magazine in 1970, for $94.

Crowds speak in heroes.

Our Lord Jesus Christ , my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.

Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.

A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.

Every show that sells out is like a hero's welcome for me.

For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew.

America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes.

Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.

Victoria Roberts spins an exciting Highland tale of intrigue, betrayal, and love with a braw Highland hero and strong English heroine any reader will love.

No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.

If we want an America of heroes, we need to cherish our heroes of the past.

Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.

I kind of wish I'd been to these sci-fi conventions before I was on Heroes just so I could experience it from that side.

Be heroes in an army of construction.

Whoever, with an earnest soul, Strives for some end from this low world afar, Still upward travels though he miss the goal, And strays--but towards a star.

As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music.

Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy.

The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.