HERO QUOTES

• A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• You will never be a great hero in the world when have not yet proved to be a hero in your place. For a great speaker is known the moment he or she starts talking at his/her tender age.
  ~ Okidi Gabriel Ronald ~
• Self-trust is the essence of heroism
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• In this world no one rules by love if you are but amiable, you are no hero to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
  ~ John Henry Newman ~
• How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
  ~ Maya Angelou ~
• Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• Every hero becomes a bore at last.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
  ~ Jane Austen ~
• A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author.
  ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton ~
• A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
  ~ G. K. Chesterton ~
• A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
  ~ G. K. Chesterton ~
• As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?
  ~ Hugh Laurie ~
• 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.'
  ~ Rob Sheffield ~
• The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
  ~ Umberto Eco ~
• Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.
  ~ Lauryn Hill ~
• My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.
  ~ Michael Caine ~
• These heroes of finance are like beads on a string when one slips off, all the rest follow.
  ~ Henrik Ibsen ~
• It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
  ~ Norman Schwarzkopf ~
• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
  ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
• In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.
  ~ Tom Hiddleston ~
• In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.
  ~ Tom Hiddleston ~
• Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in 'Batman' Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy.
  ~ Tom Hiddleston ~
• This film 'Hero' talks about the peace of Chinese people.
  ~ Jet Li ~
• You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.
  ~ Mike Huckabee ~
• I had never had a positive leading character - somebody that wasn't an antihero, or who wasn't more of a guy that you're supposed to be on the side of.
  ~ Gus Van Sant ~
• There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
  ~ Naguib Mahfouz ~
• Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.
  ~ Brad Henry ~
• There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
  ~ Alexander Hamilton ~
• It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
  ~ Charles De Gaulle ~
• I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.
  ~ Jaron Lanier ~
• My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.
  ~ Loretta Lynn ~
• It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
  ~ Nathan Fillion ~
• Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
  ~ Ansel Adams ~
• De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.
  ~ Christopher Meloni ~
• You know, we're each the hero of our own story and we perceive what's going on around us, and especially in a relationship, from the kind of viewpoint of, 'Well, this is my story, and I'm the hero of that, and I justify what I do around it.'
  ~ Michael Sheen ~
• The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.
  ~ Frank Miller ~
• The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.
  ~ Frank Miller ~
• The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.
  ~ Jim Ramstad ~
• A Hero is not a Pleaser' A pleaser is not a hero.
  ~ Blessing Adella ~
• I had to become my first hero in my own story before anyone could believe that I existed even though I was there for everyone.
  ~ Omokpariola Elshalom ~
• Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
  ~ Walter Scott ~
• Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
  ~ Walter Scott ~
• True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
  ~ Alfred North Whitehead ~
• September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.
  ~ Geraldine Brooks ~
• If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
  ~ Abigail Adams ~
• I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.
  ~ Jane Campion ~
• I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.
  ~ Jane Campion ~
• I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.
  ~ Jane Campion ~
• Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.
  ~ Tupac Shakur ~
• Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.
  ~ Ani Difranco ~
• My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.
  ~ Gary Vaynerchuk ~
• My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.
  ~ Gary Vaynerchuk ~
• Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?
  ~ Jonathan Safran Foer ~
• Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.
  ~ Jeff Goodell ~
• Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.
  ~ Jeff Goodell ~
• Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.
  ~ Jeff Goodell ~
• Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.
  ~ Rita Rudner ~
• What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.
  ~ John Podhoretz ~
• When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
  ~ Robert Green Ingersoll ~
• When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
  ~ Robert Green Ingersoll ~
• celebrating human rights, remembering the suffering and sacrifices of 1960. the long struggle was resolved. our struggle heroes made great sacrifices for us to be given equality, education, freedom and a place we call home. but today we have no place to call home. we are denied education and jobs. we have to stand together and fight like our struggle heroes did and never give up. https://youtu.be/wDr2L3qJTZs #HumanRightsCelebration #FreeEducation #Freedom #RiseYouh #upwegoWORD #upwegomzansi #StrongerTogether #rise #upwegoWORD #upwegomzansi #youthrise
  ~ Moleboheng Kanono ~
• Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
  ~ Alfred Hitchcock ~
• We can't all be heroes but the little one we have around us, let's genuinely esteem them.
  ~ Omokpariola Elshalom ~
• I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.
  ~ Jodie Foster ~
• I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.
  ~ Leonardo Dicaprio ~
• When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
  ~ Elvis Presley ~
• For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.
  ~ Steven Spielberg ~
• How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
  ~ Jean-jacques Rousseau ~
• The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.
  ~ Daniel Craig ~
• Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.
  ~ Steve Wozniak ~
• Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.
  ~ Steve Wozniak ~
• There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
  ~ Bette Davis ~
• Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
  ~ Herbert Spencer ~
• I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.
  ~ David Duchovny ~
• My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn't some heroic thing. That doesn't mean it isn't confusing or difficult - especially that question of how you find a balance.
  ~ Jennifer Garner ~
• Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
  ~ Noam Chomsky ~
• Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
  ~ Noam Chomsky ~
• I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.
  ~ Orlando Bloom ~
• I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
  ~ Bob Dylan ~
• A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
  ~ Bob Dylan ~
• Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
  ~ Al Gore ~
• I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.
  ~ Mitch Hedberg ~
• I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.
  ~ Mitch Hedberg ~
• This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.
  ~ Adam Sandler ~
• You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.
  ~ Diablo Cody ~
• You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.
  ~ Diablo Cody ~
• Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
  ~ Thomas Merton ~
• Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
  ~ Thomas Merton ~
• Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
  ~ Thomas Merton ~
• It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
  ~ Camille Paglia ~
• There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
  ~ William Hazlitt ~
• I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
  ~ Steve Martin ~
• I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
  ~ Steve Martin ~
• Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.
  ~ Jonathan Sacks ~
• Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.
  ~ Jonathan Sacks ~
• The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
  ~ Henry Ward Beecher ~
• Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
  ~ Benjamin Disraeli ~
• Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
  ~ Benjamin Disraeli ~
• Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.
  ~ Mitt Romney ~
• Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
  ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld ~