Hero Quotes · Page 41

Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.

— J. August Richards

I believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

— Richard Attenborough

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

— Steven Spielberg

Mack Bolan is a classic American hero. Readers like him and I feel very good about that.

— Don Pendleton

“First you be a hero and then raise your child to be a hero.”

— Amit Kalantri

“The people need a hero. But all they've got is . . . me.”

— Christopher Healy

Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.

— John Irving

“When one sacrifices their life for another, That is a true sigh of being a hero”

— Emily Ledford

Those of us who follow Jesus Christ must seriously commit to praying for our leaders, never forgetting that even our greatest heroes…

— Jonathan Falwell

“Without trials and tribulation, there would be no hero. Without a hero, there would be no story. Without a story, there is…

— Chrissy Gibson

People expect a lot of things, they ask me why don't you do single hero movies. Honestly, I don't know what to…

— Zayed Khan

“I didn’t want to be a victim, some princess locked away in a tower, waiting to be saved. I wanted to be…

— John Goode

If you don't cheat, you look like an idiot; if you cheat and don't get caught, you look like a hero; if…

— Darrell Waltrip

“He was every hero, every villain, every victim and every aggressor. He was the beginning and end of everything”

— Maggie Stiefvater

In a typical martial arts film, you have a hero shot: a close-up tight angle of the hero looking past the camera,…

— Gareth Evans

“Show a girl a pioneering hero—Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan of Arc—and you also, more often than not,…

— Caitlin Moran

It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we…

— Vera Nazarian

When the first Superman movie came out, I gave dozens of interviews to promote it. The most frequent question was: What is…

— Christopher Reeve

Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core. A take-charge…

— Ruth Glick

Getting dragged, kicking and screaming out of the ring, begging for mercy from whomever it is that fires me, and never be…

— Chris Jericho

Playing what Hollywood determines is a hero, it immediately sets actors up to feel like they just can't explore the dark parts…

— Jordan Gavaris

Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than…

— Luther Standing Bear

“For happiness don't pursue satisfaction, but pursue heroism.”

— Amit Kalantri

The fear of God makes a hero; the fear of man makes a coward.

— Alvin C. York

It's dangerous to think of yourself as a hero and someone else as a villain. It gets in the way of empathy.

— Megan Ganz

In a sense, Bond ousted the cowboy as the screen hero, and Ken Adams replaced the horse with technology.

— Melvyn Bragg

A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.

— Thomas Carlyle

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It was important to me that my heroes not be all good and my villains not be all bad.

— Leigh Bardugo

Most of the time I play heroes, guys who don't have an edge.

— Joe Penny

My first hero to wear the number 10 shirt was Ronaldinho.

— Sadio Mane

“Heroes are hero no matter if everybody is watching them or nobody watching them.”

— Amit Kalantri

I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last.

— Josephus Daniels

I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture.

— Brett Ratner

I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes.

— Barry Pepper

Tracy Smothers was the epitome of the perfect Smoky Mountain hero. He was legitimate.

— Jim Cornette

Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!

— Helen Keller