Hero Quotes · Page 54

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the…

— Orhan Pamuk

Ain't nobody more famous than me. I am my own hero and everything else. If you are a SEAL you can say…

— Rudy Boesch

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

— Thomas Carlyle

All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.

— Peter Carey

“I've been bad. I've been good. Weak and Strong. Brave and afraid. A hero and a killer.”

— Katie Alender

My brother was a captain in the Marine Corps and a very big hero in my life.

— Peter Cullen

Heroes and cowards feel the same fear and action creates opportunities.

— Garrison Wynn

We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human.

— Frances Hardinge

Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and…

— Meshell Ndegeocello

Heroes aren't always people who save others in the normal sense. Sometimes they're people who keep trying even when things seem impossible.

— Jeff Vandermeer

I know Rick [Monday] has done a lot of good things as a player and as a person. But what he did…

— Manny Mota

We dream forever unless we awaken. We move from one dream to another, some beautiful, some we're the hero or the heroine,…

— Frederick Lenz

I feel like audiences will get behind a hero like that. They get behind people who are not necessarily going to power-drive…

— Gareth Evans

What makes a good villain is someone who doesn't just challenge the hero but comes organically out of that character's history and…

— Christopher Priest

What's a hero, if not for its journey. I think you're going to recontextualize what saving the world means, and I think…

— J.H. Wyman

“The death of the idealized versions of our parents, teachers, and mentors—a stage in the hero’s journey—is always scary because it means…

— Brené Brown

I always knew I wanted to do genre films. I love horrors and thrillers. But I didn't think I'd be doing a…

— Nia DaCosta

One of my biggest heroes in music has been David Bowie. He's said, 'I'm going to be a painter now, or I'm…

— Maynard James Keenan

When I was a kid, I remember the first Batman, the first Superman comic books when they came out, thinking how great…

— Clint Eastwood

My father and uncles would often tell me that I was going to become a hero because somebody or the other was…

— Sunny Singh

Before 'Local Hero,' I'd been knocking about Glasgow in rock bands, drinking too much and generally being 21. My opinion of actors…

— Peter Capaldi

I think that sometimes we put undue pressure on stories featuring people of color, and I hope we get to a point…

— Jenny Han

“All great myths and stories follow a similar pattern. The hero gets distracted and questions his power. He struggles and flounders until…

— Darren Main

Whether I'm a hero or a zero doesn't really matter. It's all perception.

— Lissie

Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.

— W. P. Kinsella

“An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.”

— Amit Kalantri

We're in a different time right now, and I think we're ready to see a different type of female hero.

— Brie Larson

I have my heroes. Some of whom are still alive, and unfortunately many that aren't.

— Mike Royer

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

— Charles Olson

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

— Plato

From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.

— Marilyn Manson

No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one

— Jean Paul

Going To Cinema As A Normal Person, And Coming Out As That Hero Fan Is An Awesome Feeling.

— Badrinath

Petraeus is the finest general I have ever worked for; Holly Petraeus is a great American hero.

— William H. McRaven

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt…

— Czeslaw Milosz

I'm a hero wid coward's legs, I'm a hero from the waist up.

— Spike Milligan

There's a hero if you look inside your heart. You don't have to be afraid of what you are.

— Mariah Carey

One of my greatest personal heroes is Jerry Lopez. When you can snowboard like he surfs, you'll be there!

— Frederick Lenz

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson