Hero Quotes

We're all flawed heroes. Responsibility is power. Take responsibility for the consequences of your actions, and the world is yours. Everything is a choice.

I put the number 7 on my t-shirt because this is the number of my championships but also because it was the number of Barry Sheene, who was a great hero of mine and a truly great racer.

All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.

I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

There used to be a time when the idea of heroes was important. People grew up sharing those myths and legends and ideals. Now they grow up sharing McDonalds and Disneyland.

The Bible isn't a storybook with many heroes. No, there's only one hero in Scripture: the Son, the Lamb, the Savior, the King, the Redeemer - Jesus.

Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

Everything is a hero: A lighthouse which gives light to us; weeds that provide shelter to little insects; a water drop which quenches a thirsty ant! Everything that helps us to live is a hero!

A nation without heroes is nothing.

The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes...but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies

I think, generally, the flawed anti-hero is much more interesting than the normal hero, and that's really what we're talking about here as it relates to outlaws or renegades.

There's a hero, If you look inside your heart

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?

My heroes are just everyday people who work hard, are honest and have integrity.

Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.

What wounded veteran's don't need is sympathy. THey need to be treated like the men they are: equals, heroes, and people who still have tremendous value for society.

Now I’m floating like a butterfly Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes I went from zero, to my own hero

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

When heroes fall from the sky, many more will learn to fly.

Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.

There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle.

Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.

If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he's the hero of the day.

She remembered when they were kids and he'd caught the rock that the bullies had thrown at her. At six, she'd considered him a hero. At sixteen, she considered him a heartbreaker.

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

First of all, I never think of my characters as good or evil. I play them as honestly as I can. When you're playing a good character, you have an idea that you're playing the hero and the good guy.

PSH - I am genuinely shocked, saddened and speechless. A truly wonderful man, with a magical touch. My hero. Thoughts are with his family

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.

In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod.

Respect gods before demigods, heroes before men, and first among men your parents; but respect yourself most of all.

It’s my failure to sound like my heroes that’s allowed me to sound like myself.

A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.

One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.

Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing

You can be a hero to someone just by being their friend.

A true hero is not someone who thinks about doing what is right, but one that simply does what is right without thinking!

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.

Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.

You look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.

It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.

Yeah, well. I don’t try to be awesome. It just comes natural.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.