Hero Quotes · Page 80

“You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes.”

— Austin Kleon

Eventually, after the hero and heroine, it is the antagonist who comes with the most anticipation in any film.

— Abhimanyu Singh

Never meet your heroes' is too much. Sometimes meeting your heroes can be inspirational. Sometimes.

— Tim Key

Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?

— Stendhal

“A soldier will return as a hero either with a medal on his chest or a metal in his chest.”

— Suraj Sani

The difference between a hero and an also-ran is the guy who hangs on for one last gasp.

— Paul Dietzel

Teddy Roosevelt is still a hero among environmentalists for his conservationist policies.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

If one is determined to die for the truth, even a common man can create history.

— Velupillai Prabhakaran

I dreamed horse and lived horse and expected, if necessary, to marry a horse; for all practical purposes I was a horse.

— James Tiptree Jr

With 'Invincible', I wanted to create my own version of the Marvel or DC universe, with my own heroes and villains.

— Austin Grossman

I'm not a huge comic book fan, but I'm a closet fan of certain Marvel heroes, two of those being Iron Man,…

— Kevin Feige

My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended.…

— Ricky Gervais

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it…

— Raymond E. Feist

Don Quixote was a song for a 1969 Michael Douglas movie called Hail Hero! I wrote the title song for the film…

— Gordon Lightfoot

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.

— Sidney Hook

“SWAT is already on its way. I'll be at your position in about ten minutes. SWAT should arrive in about fifteen to…

— Pamela Clare

...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero;…

— Ellen Glasgow

Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they…

— Jodi Picoult

I love the notion of the feckless sort of knight in tarnished armor who would love to fill the shoes of the…

— Shane Black

I wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories,…

— Philip Pullman

In your time of trouble, I wish that I could be the one that you'd call at night. When you needed a…

— Mhine29

Human beings are complicated and flawed and unique, but we all have a story to tell. Gone are the days where our…

— Kerry Washington

“I get my heroes so that they're lean and hard muscled and mocking and sardonic and tough and tigerish and single, of…

— Violet Winspear

We all need to have heroes, people to admire and look up to. To find a hero, first look to your parents…

— Robert Cheeke

It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.

— Mary McCarthy

You may have lost your battle to cancer, but you're still my hero...

— Anonymous

“Embrace your dreams ... If you wanna be a hero, you gotta have dreams.”

— Zack Fair

The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.

— Anonymous

When I didn't become the quintessential Yash Chopra hero, I got into the 'struggle' period and became negative.

— Arfi Lamba

They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians

— Norman Finkelstein

“You come back here, or I'll hero you! I'll thump you so you think you've had an adventure!”

— Robert Jordan

A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

— Anonymous

When religion doth with virtue join, it makes a hero like an angel shine.

— Edmund Waller

In Ecuador, if I go after an Ecuadoran, I'm in trouble; if I go after a Costa Rican, I'm a hero.

— Paul Watson

Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them.

— Wilbur Smith

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

— Tom Hanks

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them.

— William Manchester

My dad hit 152 home runs and that's the person I wanted to be like. My hero growing up.

— Ken Griffey Jr

A true hero protects his identiy, not out of fear, but out of humility.

— Jessica Jung

A FATHER should be his son's first hero, and his daughters first love...

— Rahul