Hero Quotes

The people who carried the burden, who marked in strange field in search of an answer, and ended their journeys an unwilling hero.

As the master so the valet.

The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.

It is true that in America I've become a national hero, but really I was a hopeless case, that was all.

For every hero, there has to be a fall guy, and the greater the triumph on one hand, the greater the humiliation on the other.

[ Jonathan] Edwards is one of my heroes. I've learned much from him over the years.

How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.

I don't have many heroes. Very plain and simply, Johnny Unitas was one of my heroes. When you think of Baltimore, you think of Johnny Unitas.

The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.

I would love to play more nerd roles, as well as action hero roles.

The hero is he who is immovably centered.

Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.

People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.

But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes

Celluloid heroes never feel any pain.

Those who share my heroes are, in the deepest sense, of my own kind.

Walt Shaub is a true ethics hero for speaking out.

I feel like I learned very early on that your heroes are only as powerful as your villains. And I'm attracted to intelligent villains.

Videogames need more women and are too reliant on male, stubble-covered heroes.

I'm not much given to straight, irony-free hero-worship.

Professor Challenger, Conan Doyle's science hero, was a sort of irascible man constantly bellowing at people, so he was a little bit of a departure from both of those stereotypes.

Okay, so I’m the dragon. Big deal. You still get to be the hero.

It occurred to me that I was standing face to face with the hero of a love story nearly as dramatic as my own.

Rose, I'm an addict with no work ethic who is likely going to go insane. I'm not like you. I'm not a super-hero." "Not yet," I said.

Heroes like you always have a weak spot. We just have to find it, and then we can kill you. Won't that be lovely? Have a cheese 'n' Wiener!

Perseus, you are not the hero.

She sacrificed her life to make things right," Mitchell grumbled. "She[Silena Beuregard] was a hero

Alabaster, you told me earlier that heroes don't die. You may be right, but I can tell you one thing." Claymore looked the boy in the eyes. "I'm not a hero.

Monsters don't die. They just dissipate into smoke and dust, which saves heroes a lot of trouble cleaning up after a fight.

No hero is above fear.

The Cyclopes growled, "I don't see very well since the last hero poked my eye out, but you're... NO... LADY... CYCLOPES!

I left him in his wheelchair, staring sadly into the fireplace. I wondered how many times he’d sat here, waiting for heroes that never came back.

My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended. I think he's going straight, which shows you prison does work.

Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'

No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers, The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold.

The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes.

While knowledge of tools and the love of motif may be in your backpack, and all mountains may be measured by their previous heroes, art must exist for you in a place beyond the judgment of others.

Joe Louis was one of my first heroes.

Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits .

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.

Television tells us only the things it wants to. It still feeds us heroes, it still offers villains. And even though we know better than to always trust it, we still watch.

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.