Hero Quotes

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

I’m neither traitor nor hero. I’m an American.

I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.

If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.

If we restructure things to see that the hero's journey is a degree in astrophysics rather than a journey to star in a reality show, that's a better world.

I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died...every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.

The earth is enjoyed by heroes”—this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.

No man is a hero in his own country.

You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear.

I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.

The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.

It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.

Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.

Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.

As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple.

Luke gazed at Annabeth. "You knew. I almost killed you, but you knew . . ." "Shhh." Her voice trembled. "You were a hero at the end, Luke.

When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.

Every #‎ Veteran is a hero.

The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life.

To those of you who are leading LifeGroups, I want you to know, you are the heroes of our mission.

Forget about Batman, Superman, and the Power Rangers, cause I'll be your hero if you're ever in some danger.

I have found my hero and he is me.

Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.

Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.

Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs.

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.

Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him.

My heroes are people who are working hard and trying to make a good living for their families. My heroes are people who put their families first.

I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks.

The hero and the coward both feel exactly the same fear, only the hero confronts his fear and converts it into fire.

Like a hero in a dream, Christ came and He rescued me.

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

The idea of the solitary hero can be quite an unhealthy one, and we need to pool our efforts and be heroic together!

Well, I don't play heroes obviously. I never played the guy who gets the girl. It might be interesting to do a part where I was a father in a functional family.

The difference between a hero and a villain is that they just make different choices.

Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).

Of all heroes , Spinoza was Einstein 's greatest. No one expressed more strongly then he a belief in the harmony , the beauty , and most of all the ultimate comprehensibility of nature.