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 ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.
  ~ Stephen Hawking ~
• 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.
  ~ Plato ~
• There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
  ~ Mark Twain ~
• Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
  ~ Albert Einstein ~
• Immediately you stop imagining and start acting...that alone makes you a hero.
  ~ Ubong Oliver ~