Hero Quotes · Page 55

Being a hero doesn't mean you succeed in saving the day. It just means you tried.

— James Marsters

There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

— Daniel Ellsberg

“The birth of a legend is the death of a hero. Every man wishes to die a hero. A hero’s death is…

— Tanya Thompson

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The archetype of male hero is so boring. And the pretty, boobed woman is so... boring.

— Jessie Buckley

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler

— Albert Einstein

“Forgotten hero was never the real hero, real hero can not be forgotten.”

— Amit Kalantri

The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .

— Susan Sontag

Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and…

— Ayn Rand

Even being a Jedi is something where you look for more. At first you acted as if Jedi was synonymous with hero.…

— Michael A. Stackpole

“From the moment I’ve met you, I’ve tried to play the hero in your story. But the closer I get to you,…

— Tessa Clare

First and foremost, God is the true hero of the story. No matter how captivating the other characters may be, our top…

— Carolyn Custis James

“We must continue to fight and resist. We must be the heroes we look for in others. We must no longer speak…

— Joseph Fink

Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.

— Hunter S. Thompson

On the whole, my dad was a hero, its just that it got really difficult in his depressive phases, very introspective. And…

— Rick Stein

I can remember only a small handful of instances in which I talked about politics with my parents. I remember my parents…

— John Kiriakou

No doubt Carlyle has a propensity to exaggerate the heroic in history, that is, he creates you an ideal hero rather than…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Pyotr was the arcane hero, complete with buff body that you secretly whacked off to as a boy. And suddenly he turned…

— Talon P.S

When I was little I knew my father had been an orphan and had lived in an orphanage. I was curious, but…

— Gail Carson Levine

Fantasy works inwards upon its author, blurring the boundary between the visioned and the actual, and associating itself ever moreclosely with the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a…

— Karen DeCrow

To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your mother, necessarily.…

— Hugh Laurie

I don't look at myself as a hero, I look at myself as somebody who has taken life with a lot of…

— John Assaraf

For me, seeing our history told in this light, the ones who did rebel, the ones who did revolt, the revolutionaries, excited…

— Jurnee Smollett

“My hero’s hero is not necessarily my hero, unless my clone’s hero is my clone’s clone.”

— Jarod Kintz

The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.

— Anonymous

I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance.

— Adrian Edmondson

“When the truth catches up with you, don’t be a hero, run.”

— John le Carré

Without war there are no heroes. What harm would that be? Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

— Dave Winfield

“The Punisher: If there are no consequences to your mistakes...you have no reason...not to make them...”

— Fred Van Lente

Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero.

— Swami Vivekananda

As a bowler you are not a hero, you are always backing a hero but you need 20 wickets to win a…

— Anil Kumble

The more powerful the villain is the more powerful the hero.

— William Shatner

I know that Cena has a lot of detractors, but I'm very proud of him. He's a good hero.

— Bret Hart

Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero.

— Carl von Clausewitz

“Your position may be highly powerful, but you will be a hero only when you are highly respected.”

— Amit Kalantri

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

— Adam Baldwin

My parents [are my hero]. They've helped me be who I am.

— Ava DuVernay

“And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people.”

— Chuck Palahniuk