Hero Quotes

We want to see ourselves reflected in our heroes. Unfortunately most of us don't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.

Dead heroes do nothing to protect their people tomorrow.

Our heroes of the former days deserved and gained their never-fading bays.

Who amongst us doesn't want to be a hero?

Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person

Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.

The real hero must fail in order to succeed.

One catfish does not make a creek, nor one hero a nation.

Children of heroes have glory for breakfast.

The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I directed, because I believe there's good and evil in everybody.

I don't trust a lot of popular films because they seem to indicate that people would like to be super-heroes or vampires, and that's the last thing I mean by the useful mirror of art.

The more powerful the villain is the more powerful the hero.

Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.

Heroes, classical heroes have the look of eagles, too. They're looking beyond the immediate problem and into the future.

Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.

Where is [Ariel] Sharon who, planning to be one of the big heroes of Israel, became one of the killers, criminals, killing our small kids in Sabra and Chatila. Where is Alexander Haig?

Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.

The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.

Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood.

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history or science, it is killed.

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

A hero ventures forth from the worldof common day into a region ofsupernatural wonder. Fabulous forcesare there encountered and a decisivevictory is won.

The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning and raced across the blue dome and dipped into the sea of fire every evening.

I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than his undistinguished average brother.

The devotion of one man had given strength and courage to all.

A hero must hero.

Around the hero, everything becomes a tragedy.Around God, everything becomes what? a world?

And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Who's my hero? That's a great question... Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he's someone I look up to every day.

I'm a gypsy: no education, no schooling, nothing. I don't care what people think of me. I don't care about being a hero, a role model, a champion.

It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

This is where people misunderstand war. When you attack another country for its resources, you are the pirate. But when you protect your country from the pirates, you are the hero.

My family says they are proud of me. Of course, I would rather hear this than the contrary, but I cannot say that I am proud of myself, so I find that I cannot 'talk about it'.

A young hero is the world's greatest attraction.

He who want to be served must first know how to serve.

Drop down all those imaginations and feelings that "Success is built on Success". A HERO can be built from ZERO. Begin from where you stand with what you have!

I will give you my days... but, my dear sorceress, your nights are mine.

Act as if you are the hero of the movie we call life.

Her brain said, he’s like a brother to you. Her body rejected that notion absolutely. Her heart was confused as hell.

The day had come when he needed Cassy, and Cassy alone. No one, and nothing else, would satisfy him.

I'm right and wrong, moral and immoral, good and bad, a hero and a villain, and I've been just as capable of truth as I have been lies.

Who can live without eating? A farmer is a great hero because he fights for our existence! If anyone deserves a medal of existence in a country, that person should be a farmer!

You chase off every man that’s ever been interested, and you do it without even trying.

My mother describes me as 'a real hero . . . just like your grandfather'. But I do not know what to do with this accolade for her son, other than let her have moment, or it helps her back here.

If I have to dangle myself in the water like a freaking minnow, I will. Those people don't deserve this type of treatment. ~Willow Mosby (Exposing ELE)

If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.