Hero Quotes

He [John McCain] is a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured.

Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne.

I was never crying and shaking like the Beliebers do, but I understand the idolizing of a hero.

Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.

Most of the heroes of Scripture rose to their greatest victories after their worst mistakes. God is in the redemption business, and He testifies of this through the lives of everyone He calls.

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.

In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.

Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

My dad was my hero, my best friend.

What is a hero without love for mankind.

Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, I found my hero and he is me.

Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.

The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.

He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero.

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

Listen to your parents, do your homework and listen to your teachers. Those are the real heroes.

What I regretted in La Nausee was not to have put myself completely into the thing. I remained outside my hero's disease, protected by my neurosis which, through writing, gave me happiness.

No one is immune to temptation. Not even a hero. Not even a nobody. Not even people like you and me. Lust is never very far away. And just when you least expect it, there it is again.

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.

The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Since about 1980 Kenny Werner has been one of jazz’s unsung heroes

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.

There are no guidelines for what happens when you get successful as an artist. My heroes were artists like Acconci, and he didn't make any money. That's what I thought success was.

And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.

I'm just a man, not a hero. just a boy, who wants to sing this song.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

I cant write about something I dont admire. It goes back to the old concept of the celebration: you celebrate the hero, an idea.

A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.

Jack Nicholson is a hero of mine.

I went in and said, "If I see one more gratuitous shot of a woman's body, I'm quitting . . . " I think the show should be emotional story lines, morals, real- life heroes. And that's what we're doing

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

Aren't they all heroes-our cats who train us, keep us and put up with us? For these accomplishments alone, they deserve medals.

Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

One brave deed makes no hero.

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

Dependence upon God makes heroes of ordinary people like you and me!