Hero Quotes · Page 161

To be a hero means being the author of your own myth.

— Alberto Villoldo

Quite, quite,' she thought with a little sigh. 'It's always like this in their adventures. To save and be saved. I wish…

— Tove Jansson

I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes.

— Peter Dinklage

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

Cleverly assorted scraps of spurious science are inculcated upon the children to prove necessity of law; obedience to the law is made…

— Peter Kropotkin

He [John McCain] is a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren`t captured.

— Donald Trump

A successful home is based on the love and helpfulness of children just as it is based on loving parents handling their…

— Hugh W. Pinnock

I have found my hero and he is me.

— George A. Sheehan

There are so many people out there working with great grassroots and global and national organizations that are unsung heroes to me.

— Bonnie Raitt

“The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto.”

— Amit Kalantri

Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never…

— Stanley Kunitz

Shooting and playing defense are two entirely different things. If the ball goes in, you're a hero, if it doesn't, well, you're…

— John Havlicek

50 Cent is a hero to me because he's overcome so many things. He's been shot nine times and lived. I had…

— Bill Bellamy

Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now…

— Thomas Jefferson

Harry Potter is one boy in a long line of mythical heroes who have reminded the human race that we are so…

— Marianne Williamson

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

— Margaret Atwood

I've written about teenage heroes before, on Marvel's Runaways, and I remember at the time when I pitched it, it was a…

— Brian K. Vaughan

For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us...

— Joseph Campbell

Do me a favor and don't make me out to be no hero.

— Charles Oakley

The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious.

— Julius Evola

John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my…

— Carter Burwell

One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they…

— Ida Tarbell

Is a novel anything but a trap set for a hero?

— Milan Kundera

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

— Velupillai Prabhakaran