Hero Quotes · Page 46

Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?

— Seneca the Younger

If you stop being the victim in your life, you start being the hero.

— Anonymous

“A true hero make people feel like he is part of their family.”

— Amit Kalantri

I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'

— Dalia Mogahed

And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes

— Nikki Giovanni

What's important at this time is to re-clarify the difference between hero and villain.

— J. Edgar Hoover

I go into every game thinking I'm going to be the hero. I have to, or I wouldn't enjoy it.

— Derek Jeter

My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

— Loretta Lynn

I would rather portray the hero if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as…

— Jonathan Jackson

“Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress.”

— Amit Kalantri

Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons -- like mechanics who…

— Patricia Briggs

“The future historian will rank him as one of the heroes of the nineteenth century. {Stanton's opinion of the great Robert Ingersoll }”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

[On gay ban in the military:] Heroism, I believe, is a trait that does not know race, color, creed, sex, or sexual…

— Dianne Feinstein

“If you think your scars bother me, you're wrong. In my eyes, you're a hero. Your scars are just proof of that.”

— Pamela Clare

Some people take me as being a rowdy, honky-tonk hero type. Some people see me as a quiet person. I guess I…

— Dickey Betts

What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The…

— Frank Miller

Nine! The Navy Diver is not a fighting man, he is a salvage expert. Ten! If it is lost underwater, he finds…

— Billy Sunday

Kerouac's books portray a hero and narrator free and easy, confident, sure of his rebellion against the American system. In reality, Jack…

— Gerald Nicosia

I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance…

— Sandra Oh

Of pure poetry there are two kinds, that which mirrors the beauty of the world in which our bodies are, and that…

— Lord Dunsany

The workings of heaven are unfathomable-sometimes encouraging, sometimes suppressing. All this makes sport of heroes and tumbles the great. Enlightened people take…

— Zicheng Hong

In my village, Kharkara, 20 km from Rohtak, I would work in our fields of sugarcane, wheat and paddy while dreaming of…

— Jaideep Ahlawat

The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts…

— Roberto Calasso

I didn't know I was depressed until years later. Actually, I went to the Minirth-Meier Clinic for ADD. I got tested for…

— Terry Bradshaw

“Future will always remember the heroes, its because of them there exist a future.”

— Amit Kalantri

Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It's such a huge honor and compliment when someone tells me I'm their hero... but, why me?

— Michelle McCool

I think everybody who puts on a uniform for their country is a hero.

— Howard E. Wasdin

“A hero is just somebody who does the right thing when it would be far, far easier to do nothing.”

— G. Norman Lippert

After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.

— Tate Taylor

Every country needs its heroes, and we must follow them.

— Edward Dunlop

There was a part of me that wanted to take my place next to, you know, Debra Granik. She's such a hero…

— Peter Hedges

“poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would…

— Walt Whitman

Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.

— Joseph Campbell

Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights leader and an American hero.

— Harry Enten

My mom is a hero in a lot of ways because she's the most empathetic and kind person I've ever met.

— Jake Tapper

I don't consider myself an action hero, at all. My domestic life is the same as anyone else's.

— Chris Vance

“Fearless for oneself, fear for others—that must be what it means to be a hero.”

— Neal Stephenson

It was director Krishna Reddy who introduced me as a hero. All my films with him have been very successful.

— Ali

We need heroes who are relatable; we need heroes who are from this planet.

— Kari Skogland